The word casbah (or qasbah) denotes the walled citadel of many North African cities and towns. This website hosts few personal facts, points of view and some issues I downloaded from the web. When I registered this domain back in 1999, many years before Facebook, Pinterest, Flickr, Instagram, TikTok, Cloud technology etc., I did so to put pictures and guitar tabs and chords somewhere.
Hence the name casbah.
Acrdncoig to a reecnt reaersch, it's not ipormantt how the sginle leettrs are ordreed in a wrod. The olny imrtapont tihng is the frist and lsat letetr are in the rghit palce.
We dno't raed snilge ltreets but the wolhe wrod. And so that's why most people call me Rolando or Ronaldo! Those are more common names than Roldano.
Concerning my family name I sketched a distribution map of De Bastiani in the Italian territory.
I have been interested in China since my trip to Hong Kong in 1997. I am a student of 普通话, Pŭ Tōn Guà (Chinese language) and what you see below are the ideograms of my Chinese name (Yè Yī Fán).
Tribil Inferiore-Dolenji Tarbij - Where my roots run deep.
"When someone is 55 percent right, that's very good and there's no use wrangling. And if someone in 60 percent right, it's wonderful, it's great luck, and let him thank God. But what's to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he's 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."
Quoted from The Captive Mind by Polish winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1980 Czesław Miłosz.
A bunch of mildly clever, highly social apes broke into a cookie jar of fossil energy and have been throwing a party for the past 150 years. The conditions at the party are incompatible with the biophysical realities of the planet. The party is about over and when morning comes, radical changes to our way of living will be imposed. Some of the apes must sober up (before morning) and create a plan that the rest of the party-goers will agree to. But mildly clever, highly social apes neither easily nor voluntarily make radical changes to their ways of living. And so coffee and stimulants (credit, etc.) will be consumed during another lavish breakfast, but with the shades drawn. It’s morning already.
Quoted from Nathan John Hagens, Ecological Economics
The recipe for populism is universal. Find a wound common to many, find someone to blame for it, and make up a good story to tell. Mix it all together. Tell the wounded you know how they feel. That you found the bad guys. Label them: the minorities, the politicians, the businessmen. Caricature them. As vermin, evil masterminds, haters and losers, you name it. Then paint yourself as the savior. Capture the people’s imagination. Forget about policies and plans, just enrapture them with a tale. One that starts with anger and ends in vengeance. A vengeance they can participate in.
(Andrés Miguel Rondón, Caracas Chronicle)
