Proverbial

Träsel (.br) makes a good point, but I think he misses an even larger problem about politics coverage in all of Brazil’s press right now. Yes, editors and reporters should show a little more backbone, but this is not due to productive processes or political agendas. What we’re seeing is just another symptom of our [...]

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I still don’t know what to make of it, and curse myself for not having a video-capable cellphone at hand. Last monday night, walking away from Via Funchal in search of a cab after the My Chemical Romance concert, in São Paulo, I passed by various street vendors selling water, soda and other liquids. All [...]

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Living in a place where temperature hardly gets below 10°C during the winter, this confirms something I’ve always suspected but couldn’t put to the test:
The language of “equivalent temperatures” creates a fundamental misconception about what wind chill really means. It doesn’t tell you how cold your skin will get; that’s determined by air temperature alone. [...]

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In an online chat with 321 people (.br), this thursday, Folha de S. Paulo’s science editor Claudio Angelo said the Earth will “certainly survive” global warming, but it won’t be such a good place for people - especially the poor - to live in. Pretty much par for the course, these days. But then, he [...]

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An uncle of mine, a Worker’s Party (PT) loyalist and pretty much what you’d call a rabid leftist, sends me yet another diatribe by a communist against Brazil’s “neoliberal” MSM. The author, Ronaldo Carmona, is a member in Brazil’s Communist Party’s (PCdoB) International Relations Comission, and writes for the party’s website, Vermelho.org (which translates to [...]

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While I’m opposed to the death penalty on both moral and practical grounds, I can’t feel sorry about Saddam’s execution. And this might be a good story to tell those who think his death will only worsen the insurgency in Iraq.
In fact, the overall effect of his death is the only thing about this [...]

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