PASTIMES : yesterday was...

a good day for:

Extra-terrestrials, who, according to the Italian theologian Father Piero Coda, may, if free and intelligent, qualify for the benefits of religious salvation.

a bad day for:

The Aids Gang, a trio of Italians who have been robbing Turin banks, unmasked and in broad daylight, taking advantage of a 1993 law that prohibits the imprisonment of the terminally ill. The constitutional court has now closed that legal loophole, bringing an end to their impunity.