Barcelona and Friends Ban Bullfighting
Joe Escalante ·
Jul 29, 2010 at 5:17pm
Don't be fooled by people asserting this is the first step toward a nationwide ban in Spain or France. To the rest of Spain, this will have the same impact as a ban on pet shops in San Francisco would have on Texas.
When people tell me that Barcelona is their favorite part of Spain I say, "really, it's my least favorite." Sell-outs!
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Jul '10
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Barcelona is my favorite part of Spain as it has the Circuit de Catalunya.
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I spit on the ground.
May '10
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Now you have me curious -- what is your favorite place in Spain?
Jun '10
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I've never been to Spain, but I hope to get there someday. I know a thing or two about Spanish America having motorcycled from D.C. to Santiago, Chile when I was a much younger man. I did the Che run in reverse, north to south, and arrived at at radically different conclusions. I suffered my first conservative epiphany in Nicaragua (1986) when I noticed that the only currency in circulation was the US dollar, and the Nicaraguan cordoba was used exclusively for acts of personal hygiene.
Joe, if you ever get a chance to visit Santa Fe, New Mexico, please let me know ahead of time. I will show you a good time. The "City Different" is the only vestige of Spanish colonial culture left north of the Rio Grande. And it still lives. Linguistic scholars from Madrid still come here to study archaic Spanish from the period of Cervantes.
My invitation to you when you get the chance.
May '10
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Catalonian cowards! What a lot of nancyboys, have they not read Lorca's Lament of Ignacio Sanchez Mejias.
"His eyes did not shut
when he saw the horns nearby,
though the terrifying mothers
lifted up their heads."
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One of the great ironies about this "humane" law is that it comes hard on the heels of the Spanish government's decision to legalize abortion on demand. As the London Telegraph's Gerald Warner points out, this juxtaposition confirms the general cultural trend of "four legs good, two legs bad" (sorry, hyperlinking not working, the column is here: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100049114/decent-british-revulsion-towards-bullfighting-in-the-land-of-the-lunchtime-abortion/) The same philosophy grips the American Left, which demands a level of protection for animals far higher than that for unborn children.
Incidentally, I much prefer Seville, and even Madrid, to Barcelona.
Jul '10
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For some reason this comes to mind:
http://www.interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=98908&
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Thank you Adam. Absolutely relevant statement.
Thank you ~Paules, I will take you up on that next time I'm there.
In Spain, I like to rent a car during the summer feria season and go to the ferias in towns like the Toledo, Sevilla, Malaga Valdepeña, etc. In my glory years, our band's tour bus used to invade small antique towns like a space ship.
You can't go wrong if you are in a town that treasures the toros. I say treasure because without this booming industry, there would be way less toros around. One year they outlawed one town's festivities where they throw a goat off the bell-tower. The next year, they took up a collection to pay the fine, and off he went. I'm not saying I'm for this, but I am convinced the ban stops in Catalon. France still has bullfights for Pete's sake.
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I don't know if this picture will make it past the Ricochet censors (bless their hearts), but it is a picture of one of the wackier festivals in Spain every Summer. I'm sure there's a goat bouncy castle of something to catch him.
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Wylee, thanks for the plug. I'll prepare for a spike in the orders.