- Why are Italian politicians bending over backwards to say nice things about Craxi when he was, after all, a fugitive from justice?
- If your one-dimensional model works fine, but your two-dimensional item response model doesn’t converge after a long long run even with informative priors on items over both dimensions, can you do a Gertrude Stein and conclude that there’s no there there?
Napolitano, eh? The old PCI Right reminds me a bit of the Old Labour Right – a genuine core of principle buried under a dogged commitment to realism and doing business and generally keeping the show on the road, even if the people they end up doing business with are criminals and buffoons. If Berlusconi or Bossi keeled over tomorrow Napolitano would give him the “luci e ombre, ma…” treatment; it’s all part of being a grande statista. Everyone leaves it to Di Pietro to tell it like it is, then tuts at him for being disrespectful.
Link | January 18th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
At least it introduced me to the wonderful term “cerchiobottista”…
Link | January 18th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Napolitano, the “miglioristi”, and now a glorification of Craxi…Craxi was right in one thing: when in parliament he said something like “you are accusing me now? is there anyone different in this hall?”. And yes, most of them are the same. So why not riabilitare Craxi? This is the official end of Mani Pulite, time is now to lock judges into their offices…
Link | January 29th, 2010 at 7:43 pm