Checkmate, mate
Lots of folks, unwilling to accept that austerity isn’t a policy (it’s only lack of money, isn’t it?), believe that Mr. Portas got the upper hand from this government deal. They’re wrong. Boy, they’re...
View ArticleReality’s Rainbow
Forget the media. Forget opinion-makers. Forget the 50 lunatics that earn a spot in the news with their “anti-government” and “anti-austerity” demonstrations. 65,5% don’t want elections before the...
View ArticleLet me translate this for you
Scumbags who despise the Constitution, beware. If my rights to health, education, pension, work and housing are worthless, then their rights to private property, profit, physical integrity and morals...
View ArticleNew economy minister
So, the professor is replaced by the brewer. One more step towards bigger cronyism? Álvaro Santos Pereira was replaced as the minister for economic affairs. Actually, the former minister gathered no...
View ArticleCommunist author dies
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Portuguese communist and author (aren’t they all authors?) died. Perhaps in 2100 one will be able to write “Portuguese author, free man and self-thinker died”. Until then, we...
View ArticleSchool vouchers
The government is considering the introduction of school vouchers. Of course, every professional activist using words such as “solidarity” and “welfare” strongly opposes such a thing. You see, if...
View ArticleLost in translation
Our Constitutional Court (we have one of those) will have to decide if we can or cannot dismiss unneeded civil servants. It seems that paying people, with all the extra benefits attached to public...
View ArticleThe unbearable lightness of a busload of shit
We’re having local elections. You wouldn’t know it, but these are extremely important as they serve the purpose of deciding who’ll burn money on a slighltly more manageable scale. The thing is, no one...
View ArticleWe don’t need no education. It’s not working.
Deans are outraged. Apparently, budgeting will require the use of real income instead of wishful thinking income that never materialized. Vox populi says that this is how fascism starts. Yes, of course...
View ArticleBudgeting the dead cat
The world’s gone mad. Well, not “the world” per se, as I’m focusing on this little outlandish deathwish-driven country we happen to love so much. There’s a thin line between love and hate and, believe...
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