Information for messrs.Tesco & co.

Dear Sirs/Madams,
in Italian, "pasta all'arrabbiata" means pasta in the angry fashion - with reference to the generous use of chilli in the sauce. The so-called arrabbiata sauce I bought from you did not even frown convincingly.

Berlusconi did not invent the placing of foot in mouth. He merely perfected it.

Even his supporters must have been bewildered when he saw fit to do a State visit to Belarus and come back praising its chieftain Lukashenko - the last deep-red, genuine, twenty-four-carat Communist tyrant in Europe. In case you weren't aware, reds-under-our-beds is the standard Berlusconi electoral tactic.

words are not enough

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6664060/Pupils-suspended-for-Kick-a-Jew-Day.html
For the record, I am a Jew-basher-basher. If one of those kids had been mine, he or she would not have been able to sit for a week, and would have been on bread and water for a month. That this sort of filth should be allowed to flourish almost unpunished (sent home? give me a break!) in a country with claims to civilization makes my blood boil.