Says David Maeztu re the anti-Yankee, but far more widely applicable, IP reform. The desertion of public opinion by both PP and PSOE to collaborate with proportionately insignificant peripheral nationalisms at least makes political sense: the systematic electoral underweighting of small national parties means that you’re unlikely to be able to deal profitably with them…
Make lots of new ~euros in China and sell them under nominal price at gypsy markets. It will end in tears, but there’ll be some good stories. I too was a reluctant fan of Pedro Jota, and El Mundo is still the only MSM source to amuse me. El País is almost Calvinist-Methodist in its…
Over at Rob Lunn’s gaff. The RAE is currently preparing a major update of its entry to justify the imminent de-imputation on the grounds of incomprehension of the Infanta, whose university degrees might suggest she is actually in full command of her senses, thus helping us forget those babes and fools (oh so wise!) who…
Perhaps an early comment on what to newcomers may appear a genetic peculiarity of the Iberians, whereby fairness affects a far higher proportion of women than men.
Del Cancionero popular de Lafuente: Es amor una llama, Que no la entiendo, Pues sin salir el humo Se ve el incendio. Más. Mi amor se encuentra ahora en el jom peig en forma del mono del día.
I was wondering if, as in Switzerland (via), there isn’t in France a negative correlation between a propensity to vote to reduce immigration and the propensity of immigrants to take up residence in the voter’s district. But then I noticed that Castelsarrasin, a nice enough town almost on the Garonne, is one of Marine Le…
El mío no funciona a cilindro sino a rodillo (digital), como los pianillos madrileños: Imagen: Immanuel Giel. … pero suena con aire y túbos igual que los organitos de Buenos Aires y esta maravilla de Atanasio Kircher. El mío todavía controla solamente un robot y no tiene asociación ninguna con la muerte, pero igualaré algún…
In the absence of her chief defence advocate, Mariano Rajoy, what impresses me most is the noise of the mob outside. But, despite attempts by the PP and IU to break down the separation of powers, this isn’t a kangaroo court like that convened for Marie Antoinette.
