Guns, bombs, and vegetables
Good god. The right-wing frontier watchdog group calling itself the Minuteman Project is planning to set up its lawn chairs along the US-Canada border in Wa...
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Funny movies; pretty lanterns; francophone bigots
So I’m still too busy. I skipped French class Friday and again today to get a project done for a client who’d been getting impatient, and on Thursday, my ch...
Vraiment occupé…
I’m taking French classes again. This is the fifth two-month course I’ve enrolled in, but the others had just nine hours a week of instruction; this time it...
Hurricane Katrina; Tom Robbins’ credibility; Family visits
At first I was fighting the impulse to wonder out loud why last month’s monsoon flooding in Mumbai (over 1000 drowned, 250 dead from waterborne diseases, plu...
They told you so
So, 80% of New Orleans is under water, people who fled before the storms are being told they may not be able to return home for up to four months, and the in...