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70s Diet Advice for Kids

// August 2nd, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Happiness, Retro

Undermine your children’s self-confidence if you want them to lose weight, says “Diet and be Slim” an inset from a 70s-era News of the World edition.

Politics and donkeys in the public square

// August 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // Criticism

You know what political protest in North America is missing? A sense of humor and a sense of presentation. This from a Telegraph story on the not-so-leaning tower of Pisa:

“All six donkeys were impeccably behaved. They’d been ridden into Pisa’s main square, the Piazza dei Miracoli, last November by vexed vets from Pisa University and ceremoniously set down beneath its Leaning Tower. In protest at government cuts across Italian education, the profs duly gave an al fresco lecture on donkey anatomy to hundreds of bewildered tourists. Silvio Berlusconi’s photo appeared on many a banner, beside the words ‘The biggest ass of all’.