Doesn’t look like George Soros is too worried about the new green/red-tinged regional government: US billionaire investor George Soros plans to invest 110 million euros (133.2 million dollars) in Spanish tourism property, according to [Expansión]. Soros will invest an additional 110 million euros through his holding MedGroup, in which he owns 90% of the capital…
You’re standing there watching a gang of hardnuts running a find-the-lady game. Your wallet’s safely in your pocket with your hand on it, and you know better than to get involved in this type of scam. What you may not know is that this is a new version in which the game is nothing more…
“Spring is here, spring is here, Life is skittles and life is beer,” sang Mr Lehrer, but first it’s time to park that old Ebro or Simca under an old olive tree (or a holly oak, or whatever takes the wrecker’s fancy): You can see these two rustbuckets (as well as a genuine iron mine)…
In the States civil servants get paid to censor vanity plates. Here are a couple that didn’t make it in Florida: I H8 GOD MY HO KIZ MY A ATHEIST (but only temporarily) And here are some that did: IAM GOD KICKAZZ (but only temporarily) Apparently Kentucky is the home of free expression, allowing HATE…
Tom Shields in his excellent sports column in the Sunday Herald makes the interesting claim that: Camp Nou was turned into a concentration camp by police… The fans sporting green and white, even those with ingeniously secured tickets for expensive seats at the Camp Nou, were herded through a gauntlet of riot police into a…
From the Manchester Times (that’s Manchester, TN, people): Phillip Robinson … is studying the Korean language in accordance with the Marine Corps Foreign Language Program, which creates proficient linguists for the support of tactical and strategic missions worldwide. I’m sure Mr Robinson will do very well, but I still wonder whether they’ll be able to…
Don King hedged his political bets pretty well this time round, with contributions going to Dick Gephardt, George W and Carol Moseley Braun. He is not always so diplomatic. A couple of years ago I went to the ICA to see an Israeli film about orthodox culture. There was a bomb scare just before it…