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New crime: being sort of swarthy while using an iPod | 65 comments (65 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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Having spent 6 years abroad I'm a little out of touch, and it seems that the PP is veering towards the far right (demonstrating against peace, gay rights and self-government), and that the sindicato del crimen is once again up to the same shenanigans they tried in 1993-6. Libertad Digital is friggin' scary.

When I was 12, some of my classmates were being socialised into post-francoism. Not pretty already then. A few years later you could see all the pijos my age with theit white or deep blue polo shirts with the Spanish flag around the rim of the neck. I was born the day after Franco died, and I don't think people my age have really moved on. Or maybe I just associated with political nutjobs all my life.

How old are you, if you don't mind me asking?

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Oct 2nd, 2006 at 06:19:45 PM EST
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I´m 55 and grew up in the calmer, rigidity years, but the authoritarianism was from all angles: government, administration, police, church, school and family.

I was thrown out of school for 3 months for setting off an alarm clock in a wastepaper basket.  I thought my life was over.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Mon Oct 2nd, 2006 at 06:51:20 PM EST
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You may enjoy this bulletin
http://tinyurl.com/fomyh

I am working on a new entry on the latest PP nonsense about boric acid, which is turning into a saga.  I get the sense that belonging to the PP has been a status symbol for the new rich, but they are the extreme-right now and hopefully people will catch on slowly.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Mon Oct 2nd, 2006 at 07:23:31 PM EST
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I tried to get people from Escolar.net to come over and summarize the Pezones Negros saga, but they wouldn't do it.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 03:00:03 AM EST
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New crime: being sort of swarthy while using an iPod | 65 comments (65 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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