The best satisfactions in science …

… come not with results. They come when results are confirmed. Happiness is … how I feel *now*! Happy weekend to everybody out there!

Gianfranco Rotondi giustifica le porcherie “di ogni tanto”: la gggente ci sguazza davvero felice?

Interessante analisi (riportata sul Corriere) di Rotondi (PdL) sulle parole intercettate a Berlusconi: «L’Italia parla al telefono come Berlusconi e non come Eugenio Scalfari: gli italiani scherzano, alludono, dicono pure una porcheria ogni tanto, e gli piace così [...] Ora credono di illuminare con le intercettazioni le miserie di Berlusconi e, invece, per la gente saranno grandezze».

In effetti Berlusconi ha vinto le elezioni grazie a persone che dicone porcherie ogni tanto e che si vorrebbero divertire come si diverte lui. Fino a quando il livello culturale italiano sara’ piu’ simile a quello di Berlusconi che a quello di Scalfari, la gggente d’ Italia considerera’ grandezze le pochezze berlusconiane e votera’ cio’ che si merita. FUGGI!

Rotondi alle “porcherie di ogni tanto” non e’ estraneo: ha votato Estensione della prescrizione per i reati contabili, Missione in Libano (2006) e Indulto.

Clockwork Orange “versus” Funny Games: an Italian problem?

I would have NEVER thought to compare two such different movies. Sadly, on damn stupid Italian media the comparison is made. Why? Why this?

Clockwork Orange is a wonderful critic against the monster society generating monsters. CO shows how the same society believes to create powerful solutions to its mistakes, but in reality it fails over and again. CO is a movie with a incredibly large view on our hypocrite society, full of useless rules made not to control who rebels to them, but to keep quiet the rest of the population, giving it the warm illusion of safety. Safety: this is the abused word of the most populist governments actually in power, like the Italian one.

What is Funny Games? FG is a really nice thriller. That’s it. It is a small story, a cameo, a nice thrill in the spinal cord. Nothing more.

Who dares to compare these two movies? Who on this planet has to be blamed for the stupid Italian commercials introducing FG as the follow up of CO?

Be an environment-friendly shopper: don’t buy tetra pack!

Those days I’ve been a perfect cleaning gentleman, as my wife was somewhere else. Thus, I could have the ABSOLUTE control on our flat, as I had to do everything by myself. I could picture out which materials goes to the waste incinerator close to the city (and possibly back into our lungs/water). Here in Switzerland we can recycle practically everything:

- PET plastic bottles
- Metal and aluminum cans
- Glass bottles and jars
- Paper and carton
.. even the kitchen waste is used to prepare compost in the garden.

What I could NOT recycle in addition to the plastic films around meat and sausages or the thin plastic bags for vegetables/fruits was: the oddly stupid tetra pack. Tetra pack is made out of plastic, aluminum and carton. These three layers are really good pressed together: don’t ask me please to separate them! From now on I will buy juices and milk only in glass or PET.

P.S. I know in some countries like U.K. tetra pack can be recycled … but in Switzerland?

The Italian animal farm

A curious coincidence: Marco Travaglio today compared the last actions of the Italian government to what happened in the famous Animal Farm by George Orwell. I’ve seen a nice Animal Farm movie just yesterday night. If you didn’t read the book, watch on youtube this good version from 1954. First part, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth. Enjoy it.

Forza di Pietro che siamo in tanti …

… almeno in internet, a supportarti! Vai avanti con le nostre battaglie!

The power of EM2008 …

… and the power of football in general. It is really really strong! If I were you I would check which new laws your government approved during the European Championship of football …

Un Italiano d’Egitto indica la nuova direzione al (Bel) Paese Scaduto

Non solo un politico come Antonio di Pietro, un comico come Beppe Grillo e un giornalista come Marco Travaglio. A mettere i bastoni fra le ruote all’illuminato governo Italiano ci si mette d’ impegno anche il videblogger Claudio Messora con il suo byoblu.com . Claudio Messora con i suoi video immediati, il linguaggio coinvolgente e la capacita’ di accattivarsi il target che si e’ ritrovato (suo malgrado) a vivere nel Bel Paese Scaduto.

Riporto piu’ sotto un link al suo ultimo intervento non solo perche’ cita un messaggio lasciatogli da Loranablog, ma anche per fare da (seppur piccola) cassa da risonanza a un’idea che non posso che condividere, ovviamente

Leggete qui il suo intervento e aiutate, Italiani all’ estero. Informate i vostri amici che vivono in Italia come la loro vita potrebbe essere molto migliore se al governo ci fossero e ci fossero state persone capaci di governare! Informateli per svegliarli! Informateli per far tornare il Bel Paese !

About pimps, rapscallions and faggots in the Italian government

Silvio Berlusconi, the actual Italian prime minister, has been wiretapped “suggesting” girls and soubrettes to the director of the Italian public television RAI.

After the fact got public, Antonio di Pietro defined Silvio Berlusconi as a pimp. Silvio Berlusconi defined Antonio di Pietro as a rapscallion. Umberto Bossi, ally of Silvio Berlusconi, declared “Better fucking communist women than fucking faggots”.

This is the last report on Italian politics.

Brunnistöckli with Checco

Checco76 (.wordpress.com) came to visit us this wonderful sunny weekend in Switzerland. He got the best moment to experience with us the deadly and damn difficult “via ferrata” on the 2000 something meters of the Brunnistöckli! Two shaky Tibetan bridges were not enough to stop our heroes A really wonderful day. The pictures? Look on the right blog column a little bit down and click on the new “Brunnistöckli set” of FlickR pictures (or just click HERE for the direct link)