Mr. President Obama

 something that we can (yes we can!) learn from these elections is the following maxim (in the words of Sara)

it still remains easier for a black than for a woman

not that i have something against President Obama or, let alone, something in favour of Mrs. Hillary. yet ironically, this is what the facts out there say.

overheard quote of the day:

they have to die. all of them, one by one. then, maybe,

on the beach, a man lecturing on the “only” way for italy not to end in a social and economic disaster. “they” refers to the current political class.