Inside Europe: Iberian Notes

I'm sorry I've been neglecting Iberian Notes. We've been doing all this stuff for MundoFreaky.com , and we're actually havin...

Congratulations to the Spanish national football team. They finally won one. I didn't think they could. I didn't think they'd ge...

Well, the Spanish football team has proven me wrong; I didn't figure they'd get past Italy, much less win the semifinal as well. Ger...

We're going off to the pueblo for the long weekend; Iberian Notes should be back on the air Tuesday. I've been putting some effort i...

We've got MundoFreaky.com pretty much the way we want it now. We had a bit of a struggle with WordPress; what we've discovered is t...

Don't forget to read MundoFreaky.com just for grins. The big news in the States related to Spain is the extradition of Monzer al Kasar,...

Big news around here: This morning they arrested eight Algerians on charges of belonging to Al Qaeda in the Maghreb. This lot was providing ...

Don't forget to go read MundoFreaky.com . I improved it some more today, and added a few more posts. So the damn truck drivers blocked ...

MundoFreaky.com is in full swing. We still have organizational stuff to do, but we've got content up and going, and "Liffey" ...

I've been occupied during the last few days setting up MundoFreaky.com , which is starting to look really good, I think. Our volunteer e...

Good news. We got our silly-news-in-Spanish site up and running at mundofreaky.com . So go check it out and see what you think. And tell all...

Quick Monday blog roundup: Biased BBC fondly recalls the most outrageous Beeb moments ever. Read the comments, they're entertaining. Co...

No news today. The green line of the metro went down today between 8:30 and 9 AM, thereby screwing up the system during morning rush hour. ...

ETA again . This time it was a bomb at 2:30 this morning in Zarautz, Viscaya, a prosperous Bilbao suburb. They called in a warning first. Th...

Other news from around here: Zap says he's going to turn over management of the Barcelona commuter train system and the Barcelona airpo...

The Colombian government announced today that FARC has been plotting with ETA to murder Colombians in Spain, including vicepresident Franci...

Jesus. I got another one of these . Showed up on my referrals log because Iberian Notes is becoming your one-stop shop for incest porn. This...

El Pais has a big exclusive scoop: Dunkin' Donuts inadvertently ran an ad campaign in the US featuring Rachael Ray, whoever she is, wea...

Not much news today. Econ stuff: The national budget for 2009 will be €160.2 billion, a 5% increase over 2008. Solbes proyects a balanced b...

Yearly inflation in Spain hit 4.7% in May, a five-point increase over April. It is directly caused by the increase in oil prices, and by th...

I'm working on a new idea: a silly-news website. Right now I'm beta-testing it. Monday and Tuesday I worked on finding content. Toda...

The Colombian terrorist group FARC had tentative plans to murder anti-FARC Colombians living in Madrid, according to the computer files cap...

Yet another moral disaster for the UN. The NGO Save the Children has accused UN peacekeeping troops, and members of other "peace"...

Typical Monday, not much of a news day, especially since it's Memorial Day in the States and everyone's down at the lake. Bit of wei...

The Chiki-Chiki guy bombed at Eurovision and came in 16th. Bummer. More boat people : A cayuco carrying 68 black African illegal immigrants...

From today's El Pais in an article titled "Cuba and a hope named Obama": 'A Cuban academic declared that, differently fro...

The Spanish government-owned news agency EFE (and why we need one I don't know) got an interview with Obama . Highlights: Obama promised...

I just heard this song on KHYI internet radio out of Dallas; I haven't found out who does it: "I never kissed a girl till I went t...

So the PP infighting is getting worse: the San Gil and Rajoy supporters have each called demonstrations by SMS for this afternoon. This is ...

Judith Miller has a long piece in City Journal on ETA and terrorism in Spain . Go read it. There are a few small inaccuracies, but there are...

PP infighting news : Maria San Gil will not stand for reelection as the Basque PP leader; that is, she's getting out of the way. Very re...