This is really cool:

These guys crack me up:

Mr Atukwei Okai, Secretary General of the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA), on Tuesday advocated African Common Language Policy to enhance communication among Africans as a vital ingredient in ensuring the success of African unity.
He said some proponents had indicated Swahili as a possible adoptive language, but cautioned that the choice [...]

Apparently the Bengali government has been taking advice from the Generalitat on how “to improve drinking water supply and sewerage and develop waste-water sanitation”. That presumably means a boost for the Catalan textile industry, because everyone here holds a handkerchief over their face when they walk down our street.

Margaret Marks agrees with me, which means either that I am right or that she is importing substantial quantities of Catalan wine. The menus on my main page will rediscover their true essence when, only when, affairs right themselves or when I am mugged by the estate of Ireland’s greatest writer. From La Miseria in [...]

Really, really interesting spam.

He’ll bounce back, says Mosnews in an article on Roman’s Empire:
The head of the empire navigates the world in a privately owned plane, and not some Falcon or Gulf Stream, either, but a Boing-737.

I do sincerely hope that Europe turns out to have nipples, but first I think we should establish whether it has a belly button.
Via Stefan Geens.