Italian Elections II: Three Bridges

Easter, Liberation Day, First of May, three part-time weeks with infraweekly celebrations. Berlusconi wants to recount the cards one by one. In the meanwhile D'Alema and Bertinotti litigate for a seat. We are a little suspended on the greenish water in a foggy day, like on the Three Bridges of Comacchio, trying to find a way out. Good Vacations for those who can.

Italian Elections: Prodi Wins Kicking Penalties

I understand that it can seem strange to find a political comment on a niche footwear blog like this, but there it is. After all STYLETTOS Italy is an Italian web site, so you can't be silent when all, really all, are saying theirs. Blogosphere rumors give a measure of the mess where Italy is lying. After the violent tricky electoral campaign orchestrated by the Right, last night we reached the paroxysm, and at 3am we still had to stand made up figures, victory claims, threats and proposals of compromise. Then today, after forty years, also the supergodfather Bernardo Provenzano dulled out from the cylinder hat.
But in the end Prodi made it. It's not exactly the luminous dawn that everybody expected, today the sky is gray no more and no less than yesterday. Left should reflect first of all about its inadequacy: if you want to rule the country, you must have the courage to transform a kind of mercenary army in a serious and unitarian political proposal. Start from this victory after penalties to defuse Berlusconi's soft dictatorship and relaunch Italy. But before I would still place the matter of restoring a fair, simple and effective electoral system, instead of this kind of Russian Roulette, invented by the usual tricky christian-democrats, and accepted with tightened teeth by all the opportunists among Right and Left.
Personally I never digested the result of the majority system referendum in 1999, won by 90%, but invalidated for a fist of ballots. No French double turn or German proportional system, but majority sistem with single card and proportional correction. The small parties' nomenklatura would say that it is a step behind, but in my opinion it is from here that the Democratic Party will have to commence.

The Way We Were

I discovered a web service which is useful and impressively big. It's the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, a sort of time machine allowing to see how the web was in the past, going back until 1996. The service is also linked with the great Library of Alexandria, Egypt, and contains the time archives of whichever web site, for a total of 55 billion pages.
If you are interested in the history of STYLETTOS Italy you will find that, since the amateur beginnings in 2002, many new contents were developed but the style of the site, essential and a little severe, didn't change much.