… by Mohammed VI of Morocco is the Maghrebi story making the international headlines today, Reporters Without Borders even going to the ridiculous lengths of expressing gratitude to the king for freeing someone who shouldn’t have been banged up in the first place. What most of the papers miss is that – apart from the…
Ms Tilden-Davis was in Howling 4, so she should have known what to expect. (Early reports quote Ms TD being lifted onto the stretcher saying: “What looked like nothing more than a harmless ripple turned out to be a full-blown crime wave.” The hippopotamus is undergoing treatment for a severe case of the groans.)
Fleshbot quotes from the blurb of a moving picture that is unlikely to be showing at a cinema near you: In the mythical realm of Diddle Earth, diminutive yet delectable Throbbit Dildo Saggins is sent by Smirnoff the Wizard to destroy the legendary G-String – most powerful weapon in the land. We know, we do,…
Dos consellers municipals a Nova York, Eva Moskowitz i John Liu, han proposat la prohibició de la venda i instal·lació de alarmes de cotxe audibles dins la ciutat.
Com he senyalat abans, l’ús exclusiu del català en l’ensenyament (secundari) i l’administració és una violació clara del Pacte Internacional de Drets Civils i Polítics, ratificat per Espanya en 1977. Només falten un parell de víctimes valentes i un advocat de drets humans.
Interesting report in this morning’s Vanguardia: The man who in mid-November calls the police station of the Mossos d’Esquadra in Vic says that his 11-year old son has witnessed a kidnapping in Taradell (Osona). The report alarms the autonomous police force, which puts its incident plan into action; the description provided by the infant is…
The elderly Galician in the seafood bar down the street is essentially a demand side economist. Octopus? No problem. Customers? Never been worse. Although he doesn’t know why, he’s basically right about the first bit. Here’s a snapshot of why that is: The Moroccan catch fell from 107,000 tonnes in 2000 through 96,000 in 2001…