Organ-grinder tweets for November 2017
More monkey mess from the peripatetic Homerton/Hackney barrel organ.
Tag: karl Marx
Battles of the if-only-they’d-been-homophones: Mars vs Marx
An optimist might say that the chart shows a Roman deity giving way to a late Old Testament prophet giving way to scientific interest in the world(s) about us.
Juvenal: Will you please … learn the colour of your own bread
Class consciousness didn’t commence in the bakeries of the Industrial Revolution.
Langston Hughes in Spain
Idealism vs realism as a Stalinist hack copes with the Italian bombing of Barcelona but struggles to explain why Moorish peasants are slaughtering Spanish workers in the battle for Madrid.
Berlusconi and the wiseness of Mubarak
“The wisest of men” line isn’t the former’s, but ben trovato it certainly is.
Biblioteca Virtual de la Filología Española
Why I’ll probably be sticking with the Biblioteca Virtual del Señor Licenciado Pero Pérez.
Solving the crisis in Spain’s public finances, part LXXII: It’s time to ban socks
The Spanish government is determined to retain the 500€ note as a crucial weapon in the fight to reduce tax evasion and money laundering. Getting rid of socks would achieve that same goal effectively without inconvenience to honest citizens and would also provide a stealth-protectionist boost to the economy.
The Lutheran conspiracy against Spain
With the Anglo-Saxon plot in tatters and Jewish machinations a non-starter, some strategic paranoia for Mr Zapatero. (Like: Is Mendelssohn’s Elijah a secret weapon of German subversion?)
Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Francoist or fascist?
The precedents for, and some possible implications of, the Catalanisation of Barcelona’s cinemas. Plus some crowd-pleasing video of the Quebec language police in action. (Allez! Allez! Allez! And the hell with the economy!) All in somewhat fevered response to an article by Martin Dahms in the Tages-Anzeiger.