Thursday, March 25, 2004

Went to the center of Caracas yesterday, because my dear friend Carlos DiPrisco was named "Numbered member of the National Academy of Science" in Caracas. Who would have thought that a trip to the center would mean a joyous occasion? Who would have thought that pretty much everybody in the center and the subway was talking bad about the government? Congrats to Carlos! Update: There are thirty Numbered members in the Academy, Carlos is number XXVII, I felt kind of bad that it wasn't a prime, but then I thought, hey, its a cube! There a lot less cubes than primes between 1 and 30... 9:37:08 AM  What do you think? ( Thoughts) Who linked? []

Whoever doesn't believe in market forces is simply an asshole. In this "pretty" revolution, where people asking for elections, through legal means, are called fascist, where the government helps street vendors that violate the law and do not pay taxes while it harasses any entrepreneur that has or attempts to create a business, where speeches about communism and the nonsense of price and exchange controls are the rule of the day, I couldn't help but burst in laughter when I heard a street vendor in the main commercial strip in Caracas chant as loud as she could "We buy and sell dollars, we buy and sell dollars". Ah! Savage Capitalism achieved through communist means... Talk about Magic Realism. That's why Latin Americans are incapable of understanding surrealism in art... We live too much of it to see any difference... 9:31:37 AM  What do you think? ( Thoughts) Who linked? []

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