Anthony Goldsmith
@AULaw24
Politics, Italian food and booze, military affairs, ocean kayaking and mountaineering. Navigation. Tweets are not legal advice. Gen X indifference.
Saw Tosca at Torre del Lago. An astounding performance featuring Alexandra Kurzak as Floria Tosca and Roberto Alagna as Mario Cavaradossi. Kurzak is one the top 10 living sopranos. Alagna is one of the top 3 tenors. Astounding performances, *incredible sets* and killer seats.…
Assuming you have the hardware to look at things in a neutral fashion, despite America’s current obscenely dysfunctional (and potentially republic ending) politics, I want you to read the attached essay carefully. Eco had personal experiences with fascism. He’s one of the…
Instead of fighting Syria Israel should offer to take in Syrian Druze as refugees. Druze in Israel flourish, serve in the IDF and have a very good relationship with the Jewish state. Temporary refugee status will allow negotiations between Israel and Syria.
Yesterday we took a 14km hike up to the mountains to visit Sant’Anna di Stazzema. It’s close to where we live when we’re in Italy. The villagers were massacred in August of 1944 by the SS, assisted by a few of Mussolini‘s thugs. During the war, this was part of the southernmost…
This is just an unbelievable scam.
Somebody front ran the Brazil tariff news. Somebody bought a HUGE amount of USD and shorted BRL (Brazil’s currency) at 1:32 PM. The 50% tariff announcement came at 4:19 PM, at which point, it looks like the big trader exited his trade instantly. Making 2.5% on a currency…
Elon Musk is trying to destroy the Republic. As we saw this year, Musk is deeply connected with European “new right” movements, like AfD. It’s about as dangerous as it gets. politicalresearch.org/2016/12/19/wha…
Spent yesterday on the boat just cruising up the coastline and swimming in coves. The sea was absolutely nearly flat. Stopped in Porto Venete for lunch. Perfect day.
I have a new favorite place. The village of Isola Santa. This is a medieval village that is just past the Weatern facing ridges of the peaks of the highest of the Apuan Alps. Getting there is a bit of a task. About an hour drive from the coastal area up 20km of very narrow…
“Don’t laugh ….it’s paid for.” My wife’s cousin has kept this running since 1995 when he got it from his dad - who bought it in 1972. He’s a Hell of a mechanic. I fix up older Land Rovers, but maintaining an R8 Gordini is a whole different level of dedication.
When we are in Italy we always spend the first two weeks just driving around like tourists and having dinner with friends, before settling in. Today we went to Bagni di Lucca. It’s the most “un Tuscan” part of Tuscany. The area is pretty high up near the Apuan alps.…
Weirdest event of the month. Last Thursday, my wife and I were discussing Javier Bardem and the fact that he’s widely reputed to have played the most accurate incarnation of a sociopath in movie history (in “No Country for Old Men’). Less than 24 hours after our lengthy…
Yesterday, the masks yanked my employee's son's friend out of his car at Home Depot and detained him as non-documented for three hours saying they didn't believe his driver's license was real and taunting him in Spanish. Kid is a citizen and Armenian.
An insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.
This is really worth listening for anybody who is in a business leadership position. The only place that doesn’t work is in the military or During brain surgery where there’s a certain way of doing things that has already been practiced, tested and tried and there’s no time for…
Jeff Bezos literally just gave a masterclass on building a company culture that survives reality
Musk doesn’t give a rat’s about the federal budget. All he cares about is how badly Tesla has been damaged. He spent 250 million to help buy the presidency and it resulted in the total devastation of his car sales abroad and the loss of his most loyal customer base at home:…
Trump on Elon Musk: "You saw a man who was very happy when he stood behind the Oval desk. Even with a black eye. I said, do you want a little makeup? He said, 'No, I don't think so,' which is interesting ... Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we will anymore."
As Russia is issuing its usual threats of destroying the planet because of its impotent performance in Ukraine, (and now its inability to protect the strategic bombers it uses to regularly launch missiles into Ukrainian cities), it struck me this morning that Israel and Russia…
McCain didn’t have a crystal ball. He just bothered to read what the Russians were writing and saying on state TV.
John McCain, 2014
100 men versus a gorilla. Finally answered. The dude did abide.
LMAO! 💀
Every modern American Science Educator has done, at best, a weak impression of Carl Sagan.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.