Author: gilgamesh

This morning I looked at the front-page of the left-leaning Italian newspaper L’Unità and realized that there were indeed some interesting and comically bizzare developments on the Italian political scene which most...

[editor’s note, by gilgamesh] Gave it a less “negativistic” title and tone after some reflection. Lately I often feel that bloggers and other people who express their “absolutely revolutionary and...

Republican Senator Tom Coburn was reported in today’s NYT as saying: I don’t believe that everything that should happen in Louisiana should be paid for by the rest of the country. I believe there are certain...

Italy has an extremely harsh and brutal immigration policy which recently become an interantional scandal when it was condemned by the European Human Rights Commision as “racist” and “cruel”. The enormous...

In discussions about the fundamental political structures and customs of Italy, I have often been constrained to hint at a dirty little secret that most of the world doesn’t seem to know all that much about, or, when and...