Saturday 6 October 2012
la serenissima
United Italy already hosts the devolved Papal States as the Vatican, the Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta and the Republic of San Marino (plus a few other aspirants) within its borders, and the maritime and mercantile empire of the doges only became annexed due to the barn-storming of Napoleon’s armies, like many other city-states and pocket-republics across the continent—with some notable allowances. The roots of this protest go back decades but economic instability and having to pay tribute to Rome may be the trigger that carries this popular movement. Reasserting lapsed boundaries, once the first province is freed, I think will cascade quite quickly and I don’t know how the map will look afterwards.
catagories: ๐ฎ๐น, ๐ฒ๐น, ๐ธ๐ฒ, Europe, revolution
Friday 5 October 2012
exposure latitude
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐ท, networking and blogging
pageantry or deconstructing dumbo
catagories: ⚖️, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐, ๐ฑ, environment, foreign policy, labour
goldfinger
The latest installment of the quintessentially British institution, the James Bond films, is set for release on the fiftieth anniversary of the debut of Sean Connery as Agent 007 in the adaptation of Ian Fleming’s espionage novel Dr. No.
Thursday 4 October 2012
twenty mule team borax
Speaking of stained teeth, no where do I feel more self-conscious of my smile than when I see the contrast between something control-white, like when shaving or I suppose wearing a Santa Claus beard. All things considered, I like to think that my smile is fairly decent, and I don’t think teeth are meant to be gleaming whiter-than-white billboards, given modern and Western habits—but maybe that’s just sour-grapes.
catagories: food and drink, health and medicine, lifestyle