Proverbial

Opens the fridge to serve her a glass of water and makes a bold comment about a piece of butter, which he takes in one of his hands, and about Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider’s movie; Beth transpires. She is taken by excitement, nipples swollen; the mouth agape. There’s an almost imperceptible muscle movement at [...]

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The greatest living american, according to Google. Guess they’re not that immune to bombing, after all.

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Are you a man or a worm?

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Following on Paulo’s meme, Cisco asks me 10 things I’d do if I were king. To which I respond: I’d call a general election, get all the Crown’s money and move to Switzerland.

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True spectator sport:

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At the blog next door, Rico - also this blog’s landlord - posted some very cool pictures of Sao Paulo then and now. Curiously, he passed the chance to talk about how the “Clean City” billboard ban, which he detests on moral grounds, is affecting the city’s landscape.
A friend of mine was there recently [...]

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Guilherme Fiuza wrote a great book on the FHC administration and how much we owe them, and has been one of my favorite Brazilian conservative pundits for quite a while. Lately, though, he seems to have joined ranks with the most reactionary right-wing bloggers in just being against anything the government proposes or the society [...]

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With growing concerns over the economical impact of corn-based biofuel, I would think this NEC corn-based plastic is not such a good idea.

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According to logic, a close basketball game should be more exciting than one where some team dominates the field from the get go. But at least in today’s NBA, where the last 3 minutes or so of a close game are dragged on indefinitely by intentional fouls and timeouts, that’s not the case at all. [...]

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Diplomacy, when used as a means of resolving political conflicts, is “a pointed humiliation“. And a congresswoman who opposes the President’s political views should never engage in public conversations with someone said President disagrees with and has decided not to talk to.
Yeah, the whole problem with the US these days is really that there [...]

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