Silvio Berlusconi was absent in court at the resumption of his corruption trial on Friday with his lawyers asking for earlier hearings to be invalidated. The Italian Prime Minister is accused of trying to buy the silence of his former tax lawyer.
Of course personal pique is not the only reason the rich assholes who control all the money for New York Democrats might throw their support behind a failed Tennessee politician with no name recognition who is also to the right of an incumbent who is already perceived as too conservative. See, Ford lives in their bubble of privilege, and "works" for Merrill Lynch, and so he agrees with them that everyone should probably start being much nicer to bankers. He also, like them, operates under the mistaken belief that anyone has been mean to bankers. The simple fact that someone running under the slogan "let's be much, much meaner to bankers" would win in a historic landslide has not occurred them them--or if it has, perhaps it frightened them into Harold's waiting arms. Read more...
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Every now and then you have to salute a genius. Both the Daily Mail and the Metro report new research analysing the positions of Britain's ancient sites, and the results are startling: primitive man had his own form of "sat nav". Researcher Tom Brooks analysed 1,500 prehistoric monuments, and found them all to be on a grid of isosceles triangles, each pointing to the next site, allowing our ancestors to travel between settlements with pinpoint accuracy. The papers even carried an example of his map work, which I have reproduced here.
Wonderful. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
