The Italians have voted to reduce their number of politicians by 30 percent. Bravo! Millions will be saved in salaries, pensions, and official allowances of privileged deputies and senators; and, most important, they will stop seeing the mugs of so many incapable politicians. They announced that ...

Today I woke up feeling more enthusiastic than I usually do; I have rumba dancing in my veins and I feel myself moving diferently. I had a planter’s punch for breakfast before a Bloody Mary. I have come to learn that I am not white! That is at least what The New York Times is suggesting, ...

The secretary-general of the U.N., Antonio Guterres, has enlightened the world with a statement where he reveals that the new virus “is demonstrating what we all know: Millennia of patriarchy have resulted in a male-dominated world with a male-dominated culture which damages everyone—women, ...

Is the new virus the biggest scam in history? There are many doubts about the official version, and skeptics or deniers are emerging all across the planet. Something good had to come from the global village of the internet to fight against the single-mindedness that too many governments are trying ...

Nowadays it is impossible to go out on the streets and not break the law in some way, often unconsciously. The increase in prohibition and regulation with the viral excuse brings many European democracies dangerously close to the dictatorships of the last century. Many laws transform us into ...

Why has the world become so indignant? Boredom. The Olympic ability to have fun is in sharp decline in the new age of the cyborg brought on by nanotechnological morons. People gather to eat armed with their mobile phones, which they leave on the table like a cowboy does his Colt .45 next to his ...

While the great powers compete to invent the first vaccine against the new plague (there is more rivalry than in the boring space race for the first settler on Mars), making massive trials on human guinea pigs, I pay attention to good time-tested remedies: alcohol, tobacco, books, music, ...

The letter in which HM King Juan Carlos I announced his decision to leave Spain for a while has plunged the Iberian bull ring into a sea of doubt, gossip, and dismay. For a few days there is no talk of the criminal mismanagement of the Spanish government in the face of the viral pandemic, of the ...

The most beautiful places in the world experienced a wild transformation from traveler to tourist (then from tourist to hooligan). For better or worse, the economy was revolutionized as much as society, customs were globalized, and the barbarians of the north learned the benefits of olive oil while ...

The much-vaunted new world order is a birdcage. Western democracies are playing social seppuku with the dictatorship of a hysterical political correctness that encourages single-mindedness and self-censorship of opinion, promotes cowardice, and rewards cultural illiteracy. Authoritarian regimes in ...