You know, it's not like the U.S. couldn't do this too. In fact, we do when it comes to Chinese prison labor in supply chains. But we choose not to generally because we basically don't care about anything but ensuring cheap clothing and cheap meat...
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Speaking of the attempt to roll back gay rights, let's go to Italy, where the spirit of Mussolini, especially in the cities of northern Italy, never died and has now.
Silvio Berlusconi was on my obituary list, but I didn't get a chance to write it before he died. Well, that's fine. I figure this site should have some post.
I would have thought that being dumber than the American far right was impossible, but the Italian far right manages to combine fascism with something far more insidious: fantasy novels. And their potential new leader and possible future leader of the entire nation bases her...
This story amused the hell out of me: Who would have guessed that denizens of Italy, where pizza is an internationally recognized national treasure, wouldn’t have gone crazy for mass-produced,.
Turns out that Amazon's tyrannical workplace regimes developed in the U.S. with its relatively weak labor laws and quiescent labor force aren't going over well in Italy. And there, workers.
Here's a statue that definitely doesn't need to come down. For centuries, in a picturesque Tuscan town near the Mediterranean coast, legions of pilgrims came to venerate one of Christendom’s most treasured relics — an eight-foot-tall wooden crucifix known as the “Volto Santo de Lucca.”According...
There's a lot of uncertainty right now, whether about the economy, the pandemic, or the general political situation. We have a president who lies and deflects, making the inevitable noise.
Nothing is more likely to guarantee good science than sentencing those who allegedly missed an earthquake prediction to six years in prison.
Oh dear. One of the young women who attended Silvio Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties told a court on Friday that she dressed up as a burlesque version of U.S. President Barack Obama to entertain the former Italian prime minister. In testimony during a trial against...
Berlusconi tried really, really hard, but I have to say that he's still only the second most embarrassing Italian leader of the last 100 years.
Hey; anyone who finds a principality that will elect me Prince wins a free LGM t-shirt.