Peter Mandelson on how fortunate we are that the European Commission is unelected, remote, unaccountable, and a major bureaucracy.

With an excerpt from a plea for more state funding by the Bostonian Western Rail-road, in which we are given to understand that snow is not necessarily a bad thing.

From this month’s Barcelona Connect:
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TravelShop Turkey’s bus doesn’t actually take you to Istanbul or Tunis, but love those krazy keywords (and of course even Trabzon isn’t that Turkish any more anyway).

And of a great British pub landlord, Juan from Málaga.

Influence of fat content on palatability of roast beef.

But getting there is still a pain in one’s posterior end.

Las mentiras de empresas como Evicro, y como fabricar tu propia Sal del Himalaya casi gratis y de manera sostenible.

Nearsightedness is increasing, and there aren’t many other reasonable explanations.

Is Mr Barbecue Bunny’s sardonic grin pre- or post-mortem?

Don’t believe the wine pundits.

There’s an oddly proportioned hare in one of this autumn’s auctions in Barcelona.

Bizarrely honest or honestly bizarre?

A Sicilian says it ain’t.

Tracing that hot doggie.

Excerpts from Juan Goytisolo and Ramón Fernández Palmeral, with an epitaph from George Orwell.

Will my favourite herpetoid be safe from the war on the narco wild life?

A Catalan children’s song remembered by Francesc Candel; early rave culture on Central America’s eastern seaboard.

A bit of free association, or rambling, as it is more widely known.

Drinking, driving, cursing.