Unbelievably, Silvio Berlusconi is releasing an album of love songs
What is going on in Italy? First, the Pope releases a Christmas album and now, Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister, is planning to release a CD of love songs. You'd think he had enough on his plate...
View ArticlePathetic Brazilian artist tries to shock with assassination pictures and ends...
Oh, the dullness of artists who try to outrage. Gil Vicente is the Brazilian artist who's desperately tried to garner publicity and higher commission prices by displaying a series of pictures of...
View ArticlePope Benedict and condoms: credit where credit's due
It's okay to use condoms, says the Pope. Or rather, it's a lesser sin to use them than it is to knowingly risk infecting your sexual partner with HIV or other diseases. It's tempting, for liberals and...
View ArticleMoon Unit Zappa will be grateful to the Pope for his wise words on silly names
There was a telling little detail in last week's obituary for David Hart, the eccentric maverick adviser to Margaret Thatcher in the early 80s. In a 2004 letter from prison, Simon Mann, the mercenary...
View ArticleThe Pope is right – we've lost the ability to slow down and think
In his Christmas message, the Pope said, “The faster we can move, the more efficient our time-saving appliances become, the less time we have." How we rush to fill our days with those time-saving...
View ArticleThe Pope's right – Latin is the perfect language for Twitter
Having said that, the Pope's Latin is, if not entirely wrong, a little fallible in his first tweet. I would have gone for the adverb, humile, not the adjective, humiles, in "Unitati christifidelium...
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