Felipe González has a lesson for you

Nineteen men pull the cable that will transport the gigantic corpse of 3,200 arm spans to the tomb. This is the premise of the sublime novel The Dead Father, by Donald Barthelme. The son and his wife lead the painful expedition, wondering how that omnipresent being can still dictate his law even after death. Because there's a problem: the father continues to deliver speeches, issue edicts, and unleash his censoring paternal fury.On another note, Felipe González graces two of Madrid's right-wing newspapers today. I'll go with the one from El Mundo, where they highlight this quote of his: “There is a political responsibility: he should resign or call elections”. This is the man who claimed to learn about the Filesa or Roldán case through the press, to the point where that excuse became a recurring phrase to ridicule him. And he is exactly the same man who accompanied former minister José Barrionuevo and former secretary of state Rafael Vera to the prison gates when they were convicted for the kidnapping of Segundo Marey. True to form, Felipe González now demands the assumption of responsibility, he who attributed all the rot that surfaced through El Mundo – who would have thought, now such a friendly newspaper – to a media campaign by what he called the crime syndicate. Who would have told him, years later, that the newspaper founded by Pedro J. Ramírez would be the one to restore his lost moral authority.