Stravara Mas

Sadly the BBC does not allow embedded videos but watch and ponder.

Is it Schadenfreude that I'd like to see Omirou being asked if he's able to lead his party? Among being asked other things, one of which in particular being asked 14 times?

Over at the Cyprus Mail, Patroclos has outdone himself once again. Commenting on the "other Patroclos" [Stavrou] waxing lyrical over the late and fab Makarios, during which rants he speculates on the possibility of Barack Obama having been named Makarios:

“If the Kenyan president of the US Barack Husein Obama was born five years earlier in Nairobi and not in Honolulu, he could also have been named Makarios,” said Stavrou. And if Makarios was born five years later, in Jeddah instead of Panayia, he could have been called Mahmoud.

My verdict? Brilliant!

< the "we don't want to say it's a border but let's act like it is, but not" every day in large numbers. To the gross disappointment of Freedom Fighters everywhere, mass graves were scorned for the sake of mass consumption and our respective struggles drowned their sorrow in frappuccino in the subtly and tastefully named Mall of Cyprus.

And then, on the day of a sporting event of the highest political order, some hoolifans of one of the teams, seeking to compensate for their bourgeois existential ennui by way of Byzantinohellenic heritages, go ahead and do this.

Pay attention to some of the comments from Famagusta Gazette's esteemed readership. My favourite is this guy:

HAS ANYONE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE 50 THOUSAND HUNTING RIFFLES THAT EXIST IN THE GREEK SIDE, IN THE CASE OF A CYPRUS PROBLEM SOLUTION?
CAN A HUNTING RIFFLE KILL A PERSON? OF COURSE IT CAN...

Caps aside, I can't help but wonder if this person thinks that a) our brave G/C weekend reservists [I can only assume that's what he's talking about] are likely to use their 50,000 rifles for hunting T/Cs rather than hunting rabbits, b) a significant percentage of said "hunters" can actually aim and c) any of those rifles are in actual working order.

Anyone who, of his own accord, lays down the weapons of criticism also allows his power of judgment and decision to decay. In the end, he should not be surprised by his existence as a fully transparent subject. His private sphere has long since disappeared. He always leaves behind the same traces. He no longer needs to be observed and investigated, since everyone knows what he is thinking and doing anyway.

Wolfgang Sofsky, Privacy, A Manifesto