ENEL is getting pretty interesting. Check out their Green Power. Back when in 2008 I was impressed by their solar generation, tracked by the minute, at their headquarters near Largo Cairoli in Milan.
As was predicted in the Italian press years ago — and in these pages a few weeks back when people were naive enough to think that Fini could bring down the PM — Bossi’s Lega Nord stands to win big from the continued political incoherency. Hit the north?
Hilary in that place where maybe she was shot at, once… not terribly impressive. But good words on the hate and hooliganism, probably by Tim Judah, I’m guessing.
Yes, these are all from one source. But one ignores that source at a very deep peril, although it can be mocked humorously.
And last but not least, here’s a fine one from Gotham’s rag on rising income inequality, the reality of which we really all have to confront. It’s something my Italian students complain about a lot, but the numbers show that Europe has less to worry about than the US in this regard. As Leonardo DiCaprio mock-quotes Hawthorn in The Departed, “Families are always rising or falling in America.”