Veltrone may win

I think I wrote in this blog some years ago that Veltrone could have been the Italian Zapatero.  He missed his occasion while he was the secretary of the PDS and he retired to Roma’s municipality announcing a subsequent trip to Africa.

Now, coherence is not always a politicians’ characteristic, he tries again.

I think he can win.  Not so much for his qualities as for the dis-qualities of his adversaries, from left to right.

He just need to have, and to show, a little bit more of courage (not one of his most obvious feature) and he might take over from his historical predecessors, a long line of Christian Democrats governors.

The declining strength of the fourth power.

A kiosk was for sale nearby our home.
The old man running it was probably tired and put a note asking for 45.000 euro.
I wondered about buying it and thus enter the alluring world of press.
Afterwards, I remarked that the following kiosk was also on the market as well as others around the town.
Probably the business is declining, notwithstanding the innumerable effects on sale with the papers nowadays.
One day this kiosk closed down and a new notice informed that the price was negotiable.
Last Wednesday I passed by and on the stall there was another note; the price is now 25.000, and a ghastly post-scriptum, by the owner, was informing: I am still alive!.