so you have presidential elections in about a year’s time. That’s good, because it means that whatever happens, Bush will be gone. We don’t know yet if what comes after will be better, but it might be more fun. What, with a guy that doesn’t believe in evolution at the head of the world’s biggest [...]

Sort of late, but I can’t resist: This weekend, at the Ibero-American Summit, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez launched another one of his famous attacks on those of a different mindset. This time, it didn’t hit his archenemy George W. Bush but former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar. So far, nothing new.
Hugo called Aznar a [...]

I found the below graph in an article on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA/ALCA) - it’s great! In an otherwise fairly sound article (the first half, that is, before he pulls out game theory and “What if…?” games), the author managed to pull together all Spanish speaking countries of Latin America into [...]

A few days ago, El País published the content of a meeting between Bush and Aznar in February 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq. This - so far secret - content that El País got their hands on reveals some pearls of wisdom especially from George Bush that perfectly illustrate his way of thinking [...]

… “I wanna be like Osama”

One of the greatest pieces of political incorrectness of recent times! (My favourite line is “If I hadn’t been so rowdy they’d have let me stay in Saudi.”… brilliant!)
The above song is part of “Jihad the Musical” presented at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. For those in the ‘Burgh, it’s [...]