{ of Animals & Spirits }Tumblr (3.0; @pbarbieri)http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204468004577168731977596546.html#project%3DSLIDESHOW08%26s%3DSB10001424052970204301404577171073772095552%26articleTabs%3Darticle">Imported from Turin</a>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/17573421161http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/17573421161Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:01:29 -0500<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/13/us-france-tax-idUSTRE81C1LL20120213">Advance!</a>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/17563078914http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/17563078914Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:06:50 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/95TqWSHqrfU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Amazing</p> <p>Courtesy of RCK</p>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/17378528629http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/17378528629Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:11:26 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz4qsdIL5O1qzvz3xo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>JFK Bridge, Cambridge<br/> 9:25</p>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/17318170642http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/17318170642Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:26:37 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lysfhrec0o1qzvz3xo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Jerusalem, 9:28</p>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16940847672http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16940847672Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:51:27 -0500“[The British Treasury]: “an institution not often troubled by self-doubt; nor one that pays much attention to its own record.””<br/><br/> - <em>Philip Stephens, <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cebc61fa-4914-11e1-954a-00144feabdc0.html" target="_blank">FT</a></em>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16857527075http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16857527075Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:44:42 -0500<a href="http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2012/01/30/actualidad/1327956223_004732.html">Victoria, Parte I</a>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16812905925http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16812905925Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:40:07 -0500<p>My most recent (political) article on <a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/world/100179/technocracy-italy-greece-europe-debt-crisis" target="_blank">TNR</a> on the comparative administrations in Rome and Athens.</p> <p><img height="0" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/images/input_bg.gif" width="0"/></p>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16763204785http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16763204785Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:13:42 -0500<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/arts/music/robert-lepages-gotterdammerung-at-the-met-review.html">The Twilight</a>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16760246979http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16760246979Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:37:18 -0500“Israel knows bread”<br/><br/> - <em>RCK</em>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16754568062http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16754568062Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:47:20 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VzULkjA1KHo?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Unreal</p>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16725147697http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16725147697Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:20:49 -0500<a href="http://www.zagat.com/buzz/no-4-bare-burger">Always a Worthy Question</a>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16543807770http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16543807770Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:04:12 -0500“Queremos la revolución permanente - pero con un mes de vacaciones.”<br/><br/> - <em>Peter Capusotto</em>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16522949205http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16522949205Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:35:14 -0500“<p>You are not allowed to visit Pheasant Island, which lies near the Atlantic Ocean terminus of the French-Spanish border. But “it can easily be seen from the Joncaux bank, on the Bay Path,” the Web site for the local tourist office [1] suggests, without a hint of irony.</p> <p>For border enthusiasts, that feels like insult added to injury. They’re condemned to contemplate the tiny eyot [2] from either bank of the Bidasoa, the border river that separates Hendaye in France from Irún in Spain [3]. And they can only wonder about the inscription on the gleaming white monolith that graces the island.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em>Borders in Europe <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/the-worlds-most-exclusive-condominium/?hp" target="_blank">are <em>still</em> real - but increasingly meaningless</a>. Perhaps, soon, there will be no more. </em>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16433261779http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16433261779Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:05:24 -0500<a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3bfdfec6-46b9-11e1-bc5f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1kEOM5Agh">Of Finance and Movies</a>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16433163598http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16433163598Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:03:49 -0500<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/nyregion/rent-controlled-paradise-above-a-greenwich-village-theater.html?_r=1&hp">Right or Wrong? (Wrong)</a>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16352716634http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16352716634Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:36:34 -0500“And here is a firm, still Standard and Poor’s, whose criteria of appreciation are marked by subjectivity, as is the case for every human endeavor, one whose methodologies are not only vague, but opaque and, from the little we know of them, stamped with the seal of a singular amateurism. For, if we believe what we read in Le Monde (15-16 January), this withdrawal of France’s triple-A rating was the work of a German analyst who, seconded by a Slovene assistant, spent “a few months” gathering “public data”, blending them with the results of “some interviews” with “ministers, members of the opposition, and bankers”, and then, finally, being “bombarded with questions” during a “visioconference” by a group of “five to fifteen people”, none of whom were particularly familiar with the dossier.”<br/><br/> - <em>BHL <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernardhenri-levy/the-criminal-childishness_b_1212621.html" target="_blank">has a point about finance</a> - and S&P.<em> Vive la France!</em></em>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16155952964http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/16155952964Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:12:37 -0500““It is not the ratings agencies that dictate the policies of France.””<br/><br/> - <em>Baroin, on a day to be ballsy like that. </em>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/15789978084http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/15789978084Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:28:18 -0500“It is easier to divorce your wife than fire your employee [in Italy]”<br/><br/> - <em>Italian entrepreneur</em>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/15631334611http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/15631334611Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:39:58 -0500<a href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/2012/01/09/01002-20120109ARTFIG00555-la-popularite-de-sarkozy-s-effondre-dans-un-sondage.php">Gloire</a>: <p>(Angela helps, sometimes)</p>http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/15600817922http://www.ofanimalsandspirits.com/post/15600817922Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:03:49 -0500