Re: [silk] of fiddles and fires

2008-07-22 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 13:34 +0300, ashok _ wrote: the funny thing i notice about italians (and i meet many of them...) is that nobody admits voting for berlusconi's party, yet he keeps coming back. kinda like bush, no? guess we just meet the wrong (right?) kind of people. the other thing is

[silk] of fiddles and fires

2008-07-20 Thread Giancarlo Livraghi
The Economist's latest comment on the situation in Italy is sadly accurate (maybe slanted on the mild side). http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11751325 But they are wrong about history. It is most unlikely that Nero burnt Rome. He was a cruel bastard (but not

Re: [silk] of fiddles and fires

2008-07-20 Thread ashok _
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Economist's latest comment on the situation in Italy is sadly accurate (maybe slanted on the mild side). http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11751325 Also... Italy's current prime

Re: [silk] of fiddles and fires

2008-07-20 Thread Giancarlo Livraghi
ashok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the funny thing i notice about italians (and i meet many of them...) is that nobody admits voting for berlusconi's party, yet he keeps coming back. Maybe the people you meet are the ones who didn't. (Quite definitely I *never* did, though I am not