Thus Spaketh Saramago

Earlier this month, esteemed Portuguese Nobel prize winning novelist Jose Saramago visited the island of Cuba where he toured several schools and cultural institutions. While giving a speech at the University of Havana, Mr. Saramago had some very nice things to say about democracy:

“War, genocide, attack, looting have been the ways in which it [democracy] has been imposed throughout history”.

No love lost there. He also went on to stress the inherent evils of democracy when governments follow the bidding of economic power and not the interests of the people.

Mr. Saramago went on to eat a five course meal consisting of a variety of lunchmeats, baked goods, the occasional vegetable, and flan. Word is he didn't much take much to the flan....