bored armies.

you equip and mentally prepare thugs to guard the goodies, they hang around trying to stay battle-ready, and eventually their own desire to prove how macho they are triggers something colossally stupid, such as this.

i've a nasty feeling greece is just the fore-runner for other places, where also an inchoate rage is building, dying to release.

the remark about no-one minding seeing banks burn twanged some ancient chord when i read it.

right wing governments beware, your bluff is starting to be called, bigtime.

people have a limit...

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty