Solon Brochado: Sorry for the lack of posts this last couple of days, but other commitments didn’t leave me with enough time to translate anything. We’ve had two events of some importance, though: president Bush’s visit to Brazil; and president Lula’s interview for the Roda Viva show, this sunday. We’ll try and post content related to thatt. Before we resume work, though, I’ll like to make two notes:

  • First, while reading this post by Mark Cuban, it struck me that this blog’s readers could do something in favor of those venues from which we “steal” content. So, if you read some of our translations, please click the link for the original story. Even if you don’t read portuguese, it’ll take five seconds of your time and give hits for the original site. This way, I hope, what we do here might be seen as less of an intellectual property theft.
  • Secondly, in regards of the riots in Paris, I’d like to direct you all to the OxBlog, where Patrick Bolton is blogging directly from Paris. I say that because this is the exact type of situation why I decided this blog could be of some use. It’s easy for American conservative bloggers to say what is going over there is a French Intifada. But it seems odd to say that from the US, with nothing but your personal bias to support it, while French bloggers and newspapers say it is much more akin to the Watts riots of LA than to the muslim intifada in Palestine and the West Bank.