How to collect taxes
Suppose you want to collect taxes from restaurants, both legal and illegal, in a way that’s automatically enforced by customers. What do you do? Well, you simply create a national lottery, so that for...
View ArticleWe are the champions
We’ve paid our dues time after time We’ve done our sentence but committed no crime And bad mistakes we’ve made a few We’ve had our share of sand kicked in our face But we’ve come through We are the...
View ArticleBenigni reads Dante
Last night I’ve been to Roberto Benigni’s show in Piazza Santa Croce. In the last few days Benigni has been reading Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, one different chant every night. Foreign people...
View ArticleEuros accepted in Manhattan shops
So far the US Dollar has been the undisputed king of the currencies. A $100 bill worked like a passport in many countries of the world and dollars were used as the mandatory currency for international...
View ArticleRunning is addictive
After an entire life spent with professional laziness and no sport activity whatsoever, a little more than one year ago I began running. When my friends discovered what happened they were shocked....
View ArticleI’m a Pilgrim
In Ferrara I used to sing in Coro Polifonico “Santo Spirito”, where we performed mostly baroque sacred music. I was very proud of that hobby, that allowed me to sing in prestigious theaters together...
View ArticleA walk in the city center
Last Sunday was a wonderful day with clean blue sky. A sunny day in winter is rare and I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to enjoy the old town and take some pictures. After almost four years...
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