Italian politics is so tedious that I’m often buying ‘El Pais’ rather than a national newspaper.
Category: Primo piano
Shit collecting it’s a path to eternity
I’ve read that George Bush said that he positively acknowledged his change of status when seeing himself going after his dog with a little plastic bag in his hand.
Some of us never attributed to George an higher status, but this is not the point.
Point is that since coming back from Niger, I am in a similar situation, and this provides a lot of food for thought.
On the one hand, this is a powerful humility exercise, by means of which we are probably gaining wisdom.
On the other one, it emphasizes the lack of confidence we have with our most intimate production, always reserved to special places, forbidden to touch, to speak of, to think about.
This topic is well symbolised by the sad environment which, in this Bruxelles, most apartments offer for transitions: narrow, sombre, undecorated, as it should be the place for contrition and penance.
Medical analysis give another example of this difficult relation with ourselves, following the spread of aseptic pots. Now paper bandages are delivered, to stick to the toilet in order to depose the fruit of digestion. As if simpler methods were not at hand.
On the ground of experience with my dog, I can release one suggestion to mankind: deploy a plastic bag before action, this will facilitate the operation afterwards.
Resignation
I wonder; if you were a ministry of justice (lower case is not accidental) of a big democracy and you had presented a law keeping the president of your government (see note above) away from a judgement for corruption, what would you do whenever a Constitutional Court would declare that law illegitimate?
Country on fire
Christmas time
It’s Christmas time but without songs and niceties.
It is a different world
We can?
Upside down world
Reality overcomes fiction, we know it.
But a plot based on the aggression by the ‘freedom fighters’ against the freshly unchained hostage and the ‘trustable ally’s secret service would have been declined by any sensitive producer.
Why that happened? The answer is simple. The war.
War main feature is to subvert the rules governing the relations among humans, starting from the oldest commandment: you shall not kill.
That’s why the people supposed to protect the weak from the violent shot on the hostage. It’s the war, baby.
1 euro for what?
The campaign to subscribe 1 euro in support to the victims of the tsunami was a success.
I think 1 euro is not enough.
it could have been any of us
That’s the first thought. They were doing something decent.
In a country were me, as many others, would not go for ‘political’ reasons (and we are not so intransigent anymore) and for security reasons, they went for a good cause and stayed in spite of the risk.
Let’s hope reason would prevail.
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