Cav's Place

In a way you could find it surprising that Spain is the first country to give legal rights to apes, but when you think about it further you realize it’s not that hard to explain. The very fact that it has no apes of its own and there are no known harmful experiments carried out […]

It rained this evening. Heavily, but without wind. I like rain, but it brings back memories. Then again, what doesn’t? And what would be left without memories? It was nice, a lot of lights turned off in the buildings around here, some people standing in front of their windows and looking out just as I […]

A strange piece of news caught my eye today. It’s not strange because it’s unexpected, such things have happened before, but it’s strange to come at a time like this and especially in the United Kingdom. After the recent findings about food waste, you’d think the authorities would do their best to minimize the amount […]

One thing is certain about Euro 2008, even before the final: If prizes would be earned by those who deserved them most, Turkey would have won the tournament this time. They weren’t the most technical or the most creative team, but they more than made up for all of that through sheer determination. I’m thinking […]

So far I didn’t comment about this (there was one post, but it concerned a very specific issue), but with the opening day of the Olympic Games quickly approaching and even more things happening, I have to say something. I have a bad feeling about this, it feels like a second Berlin 1936 in the […]