Congratulations to Italy on winning the World Cup! “A joy so big I have never felt,” said coach Marcello Lippi.
The photograph of the sun beaming down on an Italian flag is one I took early this year in Tuckaho, New York, from outside the Generoso Pope Foundation building. I had planned to send it to Michelle Malkin to get her worked up over il riconquistare — the nefarious plot to claim America as Italian territory in the name of Amerigo Vespucci, Giovanni da Verrazzano and Cristoforo de Colombo — but I never got around to it.
If I’d only realized this was an omen of a World Cup victory and placed bets then … oh, well.
Getting all the happy news out of the way early so I can go back to snarking — Paul Krugman writes that the economy of the world’s greatest city — New York, New York — is thriving.
Update: Via Avedon — some great editorial cartoons.
Maha,
Italians are different. I used to work in Brooklyn and I thought I knew something about Italians. I realized I knew nothing after I knew J for awhile. J was born in Egypt of Italian parents. But J was Italian and definitely not Egyptian. After WWII, J emigrated to Sao Paulo, Brazil and married R, also of Italian parentage. She was not Brazillian, R was Italian. Both R and J became citizens of the United States and were very proud of the USA but they were always Italians first.
I am happy for Italy and for all the Italians, worldwide, that Italy won it’s fourth World Cup.
Someone just emailed me and said the preview function worked, so I’m trying it out.
Well, no. I’ll keep working on it.
So much for thinking I know Italians, or maybe she’s just too busy, but I visited with R & J’s youngest child and first born in the USA. She had no idea Italy was even playing in the World Cup.. Didn’t have the heart to ask her if she knew what the World cup was.