It's amusing to see that the Ashley Madison
adultery site had members from the Vatican, as well as a Christian
fundamentalist US reality star. He's admitted he was(is?) a hypocrite
and assured us he's sent his apologies to God. Who possibly knew all about it. A British columnist
has referred to the site as a 'penile Ponzi scheme' but I'm not sure
it falls within this technical term, as newcomers didn't finance dividends for old-comers. As it were.
Olli Rehn was the
European Commission’s top economic official at the height of the
eurozone crisis. He's now gone on record as saying: "Political
paralysis in the eurozone will force the bloc into permanent turmoil
unless countries stop 'muddling through' and take
responsibility for reforms". Thanks to political rifts between
countries within the single currency block, he said, he didn't see it
becoming a 'transfer union' where stronger economies paid for
weaker ones. Which was totally predictable. See next para. More here.
If you're really into
the EU and its shortcomings, here's a brilliant Paul Krugman article
on "Europe's Impossible Dream".
The word 'schlep'
appeared in an article yesterday and I had to check on the meaning,
viz. 'To drag or haul (an object); to walk, esp. to make a tedious
journey'. Or 'To carry clumsily or with difficulty. To move slowly or
laboriously'. The noun
means: 'An arduous journey'. I wasn't surprised to see it came from
Yiddish - שלעפּן or shlepn - and is
also a German word - schleppen. It's also spelt shlep. Just thought
you'd like to know.
Talking of words I've
had to look up recently . . . . 'To curate' and 'curation' seem to
have become fashionable. The original meaning was to 'To act as
curator of; organize and oversee'. But it may have morphed into
something else now. Or is just de rigeur if you want to appear hip.
Which you aren't if you use the word 'hip', I fear.
Here in Galicia, we're
all agog at the Prime Minister's assurance that we certainly will
have the AVE high-speed train to Madrid by 2018 - originally 2008, as
I recall - but, then, what else is he going to say ahead of general
elections?
Finally . . . After 4
years of just failing to do so, Pontevedra FC finally made it to the
Segunda B (Second B) Division of the Spanish League for this season. The difference between
this and the Segunda Division [A] is that there's only 1 league in
the former but 4 leagues in the latter, devised on a largely
geographical basis, I think. So, really our club is, at best, in the 3rd
Division but possibly the 6th. But who's counting? Incidentally, they lost their first match on Saturday. But they wuz robbed, said the local paper.
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