La Dieta Fornero

The Italian  Minister of Labour, Elsa Fornero, said that the new Labour Reform "is like a diet, it requires some effort".

"But look at the results you can achieve with a little perseverance".

Life on Other Planets

Pensas que existem outros seres intelligentes em outros planetas?
Pensi che ci siano esserei intelligenti su altri pianeti?

Governo Monti 2

"We were pretty sure that, after Berlusconi, things couldn't go worse"
"You know...Italians love to go beyond expectations".

Governo Monti 1

"Mario Monti said that the new labour reform is necessary for the country, although it is not easy to understand".                                                                                                                                                     "Well, the part that says that workers should be starved and  enslaved is perfectly clear".

Burqa and Related Problems

B-Movies Mash

T'amo pio bove...

Urban Mutations III

Urban Mutations II (Vintage)

Urban Mutations part I - Ob-Scene Queen

Sincerità

La soglia del chissenefrega

L'ultima della Fornero non mi è proprio andata giù.

Immagine tratta dall'impareggiabile archivio di www.etc.usf.edu

Ancora il Ministro Fornero

Mortes no trabalho, desemprego, discriminação sexual, pobreza, poluição, sistema de saúde pública ineficiente, escândalos das obras públicas.

“Quem disse que na Itália há só máfia?”

Perdono / Forgiveness / Perdão

Filho, lembra-te do que diz a nossa Bíblia sobre o perdão aos inimigos.

Figliolo, ricorda cosa dice la Bibbia riguardo al perdono.

Politica aziendale della Fiat

Estemporanea

Little known Fact

L'intoccabile Fiat / Freedom of Speech in Italy

"Fiat sued an Italian TV journalist for a bad review of an Alfa Romeo car and the judge gave him a 5 million euros fine".

"If the journalist had made a review of the 'multipla' Fiat would have had him hanged"

Street Food

Il gallo Mario, critico letterario

The last three cartoons dealt with Italian issues, so I did not translate them. More 'universal' cartoons coming soon.

Il tanto agognato posto fisso

Sgarbi ex-sindaco integerrimo

Monti e l'articolo 18

Hoplites

Cursus Mundi

Untitled

I had this idea of a "writing spider" and then I took inspiration, for the spiderweb, from an old illustration from the "The Boys' and Girls' Readers" (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1919) by  Emma Miller Bolenius that I found on the website www.etc.usf.edu

Witches' Brew

-"Eye of newt, toe of frog, tail of rat and hair of dog...."
-What about a vegan version with lettuce and tofu ?"

A Small Personal Tribute