A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

IF YOU USED TO HAVE AN EMPIRE, CLAP YOUR HANDS: I've never been to Spain, but I kind of like the music. So why they'd bother straining to put lyrics to a National Anthem that has been, by all accounts, serviceably patriotic (if conspicuously prediscursive) since King Carlos III first blessed it in 1770 is completely beyond me. Whatever committee approved the effort should be sent *ahem* walking Spanish down the hall.