The EUnion Bags an IgNobel

Reality Mugs the Onion You cannot make this shit up. Seriously, there is nothing the Nobel Prize can do to make up for this shit. Next year, Hugo Chavez & Castro!

Never Our Friends and Allies: The Pakis

They are about as much our ally as Planet Pepe is a friend to the rights of man.

And then Italy will go Greek

But it will come at a massive cost. The riots of Athens will become those of Milan, Madrid and Marseilles. Parties of the fringe will gain greater sway. .. Countries will choose decay over reform. It's a long, likely parade of horribles.

And Rott will frolic in the Alps with Charly, sipping chilled Chablis, oblivious to it all. Laissez les bons temps rouler!