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In 2007 the Italo-Canadian artist Cosimo Cavallaro secured free publicity with the condemnation by idiot American Catholic reactionaries of his harmless chocolate Jesus. Here in Spain, you can have an entire chocolate Nativity scene, as a normal expression of commercially-tinged religious sentimentality. In fact a whole 1,450 kilo sugar Nativity Granada, in a chocolate factory [...]
Archive for the ‘Spain’ Category
January 10th, 2013
September 8th, 2012
Spanish labour costs are painfully converging with German ones.
May 19th, 2012
A proposal for large solar panel leasing scheme in Spain funded by puritanical Germans.
January 16th, 2012
A striking but unrepresentative example of waste and vanity in Spanish public spending.
December 12th, 2010
High-speed trains for Tangier, not Milwaukee.
August 19th, 2010
Olives grown in hedges.
September 4th, 2009
Category: Intellectual property, Spain
Apanish village revolts against copyright parasites.
February 23rd, 2009
Category: Public management, Spain
The political geography of doling out the high-speed rail money, and a mess in Catalonia.