One should not forget that Europe as a personality or playable character is something ultimately derived from a Greek myth (EN/DE), and not a very happy or pleasant one at that. While there is trouble going on in the lands of the Classics, France too in its capacity as a leader in the European Union’s coregency with Germany in fixing the currency is seeing its woes compounded. A major credit rating agency made known by mistake and perhaps prematurely the downgrading of France’s credit-worthiness. I am sure that the functionaries at such institutions always have such press-releases cocked, especially when it is a real and strategic possibility, and ready, like the morbid job of obituary writers who constantly update the curriculum vitae of celebrities, so their newspaper can be first and timely in case one should leave us unexpectedly.
Saturday 12 November 2011
warnschuss, coup de semonce or disconfirmed expectancy
Friday 11 November 2011
elevensies
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ป, holidays and observances
Thursday 10 November 2011
entente or cabbages and kings
catagories: economic policy, Europe, foreign policy, holidays and observances, revolution
Wednesday 9 November 2011
heurism or green fairy/blue tooth
catagories: Europe, food and drink, holidays and observances, technology and innovation
matchbox or go-go-gadget brella
Tuesday 8 November 2011
a series of tubes
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, environment
little golden book or mihi causas memora
Virgil’s epic the Aeneid, the founding story of the Roman Empire that began with a lieutenant’s escape from burning Troy, carrying his infant son, Ascanius, in his arms and his elderly father, Anchises on his back, as well as a bundle of household gods, wandering journey from Phrygia to Italy, battles with the Latins and eventual status as forbearer of the Roman people, presents a rich allegory, with some powerful, contemporary points of correspondence (for what it’s worth, as the latest tragedies are not, in the grander scheme of adventure and mythological, really all that legendary) with the current Greco-Roman marketplace.
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ท, ๐ฎ๐น, ๐น๐ท, ๐, economic policy