Archive for November, 2009
A rant and a proposal about essential services
Water rates have recently been introduced here. That means the local council now sends us a bill, quarterly, for the cost of supplying water to our house. Actually the bill is for the cost plus the profit earned by some utility company set up for the particular purpose of administering the provision of domestic water, [...]
The golden rule.
22 United States agents have been convicted in Italy for the abduction and torture of a person who, although himself the subject of a criminal investigation by the Italian police, had been convicted of no crime. Imagine if Italy did this on US soil. Should those spies be free of the consequences of US law? [...]
