Archive for March, 2008

Fluctuat nec mergitur

Monday, March 31st, 2008

A la barre du Scilicet, je tiens bon malgré les assauts du vent et la charge... du travail!

Jeudi soir, premier "vrai" conseil municipal avec 24 points à l'ordre du jour. Je pensais en sortir à 1h du matin, et en fait tout était bouclé à 23h. J'ai même pu visiter les sous-sol de la mairie avec le directeur technique qui était tout fier de me montrer la salle serveur et les onduleurs. Mon œil

DETENUTI STRANIERI

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

La questione dei detenuti italiani all'estero ricalca esattamente la questione dei detenuti stranieri in Italia. Non c'è modo di risolverla se non con grandissime spese. Forse potrebbero essere utili dei trattati di reciprocità fra i vari stati.Tremi...

PREMIO ALLA STUPIDITA’

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Civitavecchia, lancia un sasso dalla superstradaFeriti quattro giovani: arrestatoCIVITAVECCHIA (30 marzo) - Ha lanciato un masso contro una macchina con 4 persone a bordo. I carabinieri della compagnia di Civitavecchia hanno arrestato un romeno accusat...

ELOGIO DELLA STUPIDITA’

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Mi domando davvero angosciato come si possano creare certe situazioni. Qualunque persona, che non sia più bisognevole di cure, DEVE essere dimesso dall'ospedale, e questo è compito del primario del reparto. Poi è clandestino, e DEVE essere espulso, ...

Neurolaw multimedia

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The glorious Situationist Blog (22 Feb) draws our attention to an interesting video and a recent NPR broadcast, both exploring the issues around brain scanning in legal / criminal justice contexts. The video is a panel discussion entitled “My Brain Made Me Do It” and the NPR broadcast is “Neurolaw: The New Frontier”.
Access both via the Situationist here. (Source: Psychology and Crime News)

Tous les Arcasiens, toutes les Arcasiennes, vont chanter, vont danser sur le violon

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Bertrand Lemaire m'apprend que l'escroquerie 419 n'est pas africaine... et que la lettre de Jérusalem est bien une invention française!

J'en suis resté tout baba.

Du coup, cela m'a donné envie d'aller lire un morceau du livre d'Eugène-François Vidocq intitulé Voleurs, physiologie de leurs mœurs et de leurs langages. Le livre date de 1837.

Comme vous tous, je reçois quantité de messages en

Body Modification and the TSA

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

I have GOT to add this to the lecture. Evidently, according to this story, Mandi Hamlin was forced to "rip out" her body jewellery (nipple clamps) "with a pair of pliers before she was allowed to board a flight in Lubbock TX." The woman holding the pli...

Breakfast at Big Al’s

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

And this is spring?The food was warm.

Make it STOP!

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

When Fred's top hat can wedJudy's Easter bonnetHats' amoreWhen a stetson makes a passTo a pillbox on a lassHats' amoreWhen monsieur's French beretWoos madame's French beretHats' amoreA porkpie in a 'VetteAttracts sunny straw headsHats' amoreA ski bunny...

The Rhetorician in the Blue Linen Labcoat

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Let us all welcome The Rhetorician in the Blue Linen Labcoat to the blogosphere, with her Rethorykical Questions. I can't spell it or pronounce it, but I can cut and paste. Do check out her tales of life in Elsinore--particularly Bible, Brick or Toaste...