Choosing between two (d)evils.

The Iranians have a tough choice to make in the upcoming second round of the presidential election.
Either they pick the 70yr old billionaire Rafsanjani who ruled between 1989-1997 and robbed the country blind in the process
or they pick the mayor of Teheran, 51yr old Ahmadinejad, who wants to segregate the sidewalks for men and women and who also wants to outlaw double beds (!?).
Like John Travolta said in Face-Off: 'What a predicament!'

WK Voetbal tot 20j

I was reminded of the stupidity of the human race when I was watching the world championship football for players aged 20 or under on Dutch television. Before the match Australia-Benin kicked off, there was a minute of silence for the deceased keeper of the Benin team. During the qualifying stages he was stoned to death after he had a bad game. I bet Tristan Peersman is happy he wasn't born in Benin.

The Dutch team has an awesome player in its ranks: Quincy and then something (he should shorten his name to Quincy, like the Brazilians)
The kid playes like Ronaldo Squared (the one from PSV/Madrid and the one from Man U)and makes Arjen Robben look like a snail (and Baseggio like he's running backwards)

Tonight/ Argentina vs the U S of Aaaaaa, featuring 16yr old Freddy Adu, the next Pele.

EU in tatters?

What's all the negativism around the NO verdicts delivered by the French & the Dutch in the EU constitution referenda? Some commentators are acting like we're doomed. Wake up and smell the coffee! This is how democracy is supposed to work , not by ramming political decisions down people's throats. There is only so much change people can take in a certain amount of time. Let's see...
1999: a new currency; that's quite a huge change , affecting everybody's lives
2004: EU-15 becomes EU-25, former communist countries (some piss poor) join the club
2005: Turkey is about to join and a constitution of 480 pages is drafted
no wonder people voted for a time-out.
Did you know that the constitution contains passages minutely describing the wages and severance packages of the EU bureaucrats? Does that belong in a constitution?

The referenda will restore part of the public's lost confidence in politics and may benefit the political project called EU in the long run.
As the French would say: Reculer pour mieux sauter.