Weather is not climate but...

Weather is not climate, but a trend in weather patterns can be an indicator that climate is changing, at least locally. If this assumption is true, we are definitely going towards colder times in this north west corner of Italy. I look forward to a nice walk on the mountain to check how much winter and spring snow is still accumulated in shaded valleys that few years ago were completely snow free at this time of the year...

Another success for Mr. Obama

After Lybia and Ucraine, Mr. Obama can enlist another great success in foreign policy: Iraq. Syria an Egypt are thankful for the US administration not being deeply involved in solving their problems.

The power of the 'chair'

The power of the chair, in Italian 'poltrona', that is a place of power and responsibility, can bring a fight even in the most extremist leftist intellectuals, those who are always right, morally unexceptionable, and who feel they are the only ones empowered to judge the morality of the others. Well, the cronicles tell us, that in front of the opportunity of a chair in the European parliament, Barbara Spinelli, one of the most influent maitre a penser of the Italian left, had no problem to rinnegate her promise to run for the election with the only purpose to collect more votes, and 'reluctantly' accepted the chair, causing protests and arguments between those who believed in her promise.