1. To the US Senate, all I can say is Bollazo! Bollazo!

2. In a reprise of (Wrath of) Khan's final moments, Castro spits in the eye of the Bush administration, arguing that biofuels initiatives threaten global starvation. On the whole, I think it's a slightly odd tack to take, since Cuba seems to have done alright by its own self-sufficiency ( Read more... )

If I find myself transiting through Heathrow Tuesday 13 March night with a connecting flight 10.30am the next day, is there anyone I can crash with overnight??? I promise to fulfill any portable noncriminal request from Italy or San Francisco (though in the former this will depend on a very narrow shopping window, and in the latter wedding gift ( Read more... )