Perhaps the most salientpoint about the latest developments in Italy is that investors should start paying more attention to idiosyncratic, or country-specific, risks.
The other salientpoint about FTL is that it is an amazingly successful game: the major challenge to writing about it is that it is difficult to resist the temptation to start playing it instead.
The salientpoint here is that they were not men who spent their professional lives following the evidence wherever it led: They had decided where it was all going to lead by their sophomore year of college!
While I don't agree with everyone's point of view or individual causes, it is so culturally salient that people are finally out in the streets protesting instead of just "liking" causes on Facebook.