Things I´ve seen on television: both are absurd, one is funny.

Sometimes we watch the news at lunchtime.
Spanish news is not all that different from American news -- it seems to either be numbingly tragic and disaterous or numbingly fluffy and inconsequential.
The other day they did a piece on the sexuallity of the Spanish, citing statistics (how often everyone does it, where they do it, how long they do it for, etc) over video footage of couples making out passionately in public parks. My grandmotherly señora and her grown daugther didn´t seem to blink, so I tried to take it all in stride as I ate my garbonzo beans, but when the straight-laced reporter started discussing the frequency of orgasms, I was unable to stifle my giggle.
Yes, I am twenty-one years old, why do you ask?
Today on the news we watched as mourners were torn hysterically away from a funeral in Granada by the police because the president of Latvia was visiting the cemetary and for some reason the police were told to get everyone out. From the footage, I thought that someone had been robbed, or worse. Turns out they were being pushed to the ground for attending a funeral service.
I can´t even make it sound more ridiculous than it is. I tried, I just can´t.
There are a few signs grafitied around the city that have a couple of menacing policemen with nightsticks surrounded by the words "they´re not here to help you."
I always thought it was sprayed onto the wall by some sort of anarchist or something.
But now I have to wonder whether it wasn´t just someone trying to peacefully lay their mother or father to rest.