Recent content by Incarnatur Est

Why does eveyone seem to believe it was a madman? That is, a mentally ill person? The timing of this - four days before a national referendum where she was the most prominent spokeswoman on the yes rooster - certainly suggests it was a premeditated political murder. Most genuine madmen don't...

I know Antonin Dvorak and Karel Capek rest there. At a guess Smetana does too.

No doubt it would. It would also be quite a trick to both nationalize and multinationalize the industry simultaneously. Highly dubious. What's holding real progress back in Russia is lack of democratic infrastructure in the form of a strong state that both enforces law and levels the...

While Italy is undoubtedly the Western country that most resembles Russia - an entrenched Maffia sector, a goverment that just so happens to own most media and incredible regional differences coupled with a demographic trend well below replacement levels - I think the Russians would be quite mad...

Jammer's aren't exactly allowed anywhere. Still, a local-radius phone jammer is a nice little thing to add to your key ring, and the annoying little teenage twit chatting away on the seat next to you will never figure out it wasn't her el cheapo phone that didn't go belly-up if you're even...

Smoking should be everyone's own choice. Of course, every smoker should have have to pay chem wash of the clothes of every other person his or her somke affects as well as some reasonable sum toward a medical fund. In order to reduce red tape, let's say anybody smoking has to pay $100 to anybody...

Charles IV. I'd have to google the exact years, but we're talking 12th Century here. Died around 1380.

Mea culpa. Nobody who seeks re-election, I should have said.

Nobody is ever as anti-spending as they are anti-tax. Not in democracies anyway.

Great. Now that the Germans have established that calling democratic head of states and parlamentarians nazi is bad, I guess an apology to the US over that deranged German female minister caling Bush a nazi is forthcoming?

We may be plaing fast and loose with the rules, but that's quite ok so long as we don't actually lose.

And therefor anyone playing them in movies must also be nazi? I see.

Berlusconi said the gentlemen in question would fit perfectly in the role as a concentration camp commendander in a film that was being produced. A far cry from calling him nazi. And I liked the smooth showmanship when delivering that insult - with all that latino flair. The outrage...

Of course, by then the damage of rearing w/out any kind of demands or limits is already done. Witness how hordes of spoiled brats turned Gothenburg into a battlefield last year. It was so bad even Swedish courts, known in the whole world for their victim-blaming antics, finally managed to put...

FL2s defense is interesting. Of course, it's a defense against that works - or rather doesn't work - for all crimes: "Honest judge, I panicked and offed all the people in McD's with my Uzi cause I realized I could get 10 to life for armed robbery. It's society's fault!"