These guys crack me up: Mr Atukwei Okai, Secretary General of the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA), on Tuesday advocated African Common Language Policy to enhance communication among Africans as a vital ingredient in ensuring the success of African unity. He said some proponents had indicated Swahili as a possible adoptive language, but cautioned that…
Apparently the Bengali government has been taking advice from the Generalitat on how “to improve drinking water supply and sewerage and develop waste-water sanitation”. That presumably means a boost for the Catalan textile industry, because everyone here holds a handkerchief over their face when they walk down our street.
Margaret Marks agrees with me, which means either that I am right or that she is importing substantial quantities of Catalan wine. The menus on my main page will rediscover their true essence when, only when, affairs right themselves or when I am mugged by the estate of Ireland’s greatest writer. From La Miseria in…
He’ll bounce back, says Mosnews in an article on Roman’s Empire: The head of the empire navigates the world in a privately owned plane, and not some Falcon or Gulf Stream, either, but a Boing-737.
Go check out Barcepundit, the new home of ex-Hispalibertas bod, Franco Alemán, who is neither a dead dictator, nor French, nor German, but who does have some rather important things to say to you in English and Spanish. I wonder if it is not time to declare a moratorium on new blogs with the prefix…
When people emerge from feudalism only to find themselves imprisoned once more by pyschopaths dressed as plumbers, it’s difficult to take exception to any desire they may have to change their condition and to make that change permanent. However, there is always the odd Cassandra in trousers determined to find defeat in victory. “In China…
Not a single person wanted to come on the Republican Picnic today, so I went a-wandering in a very quiet valley in the pre-littoral range. There I met a 75-year old shepherd, out for the day with a couple of dozen young ewes and goats, who explained to me a number of very interesting things,…
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