Catholic sharia courts in Spain

Half of Spain has been walking round for the past decade chanting “Aznar, murderer,” which is demonstrably untrue, and nothing at all has happened. Now a kid down in Seville has put a picture on his website of some virgin (sorry, Our Lady of Hope of Triana) with a willy in her hand and a…

logic

Over at El Racó Català they’re suggesting that if the removal of Carod was a necessary consequence of ETA’s alleged Catalonia-only ceasefire, then the Islamo-Nazis’ alleged Spain-only ceasefire should logically lead to the resignation of our new leader, Señor Ostrich. What nonsense!

untied states

In a different world Dominique Moïsi (social network) might have made an excellent French foreign minister. Here‘s yet another good piece by him, rounded off with a distinctly Freudian typo.

When is dancing terrorism?

When I’m involved, is the short answer. Just as enthusiastic but slightly less individualistic are the dances that are virtually always created as part of the branding process of a deranged sect. That’s why in India The Supreme Court (coram, Babu, Mathur, Lakshmanan, JJ) in a majority judgment today held that Anand Margis can’t perform…

why don’t i get these gigs?

Fuarosa Tamati and her daughter were given $26K by the New Zealand government to go to New York, LA and a bunch of Pacific islands to listen to hip-hop: “Having an overseas experience is really good because I am the type of person who learns visually, I am not an academic at all,” said Fuarosa……

Slaves

A friend out walking in the Aragonese pre-Pyrenees the other day came across an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere that was obviously in the final stages of conversion to a country grillhouse. Inside she discovered a man and a woman, surrounded by empty bottles of beer, paralytically drunk. The man was from Rumania,…

The world in a sentence, part 1

Over the next few days I will be posting in instalments a sentence from Seres Míticos y Personajes Fantásticos Españoles by Manuel Martín Sánchez. Here are the first 68 words: Hay muchos otros, como se puede comprobar en la lista que se acompaña, siendo curioso que el toro, considerado como el animal totémico español, y…