Jacki (Jacki and Jacky are not the same person, don't get confused) sends this fragment. Enjoy: He Grasped me firmly but gently just...

Richard Cohen has a nice piece in the International Herald Tribune about today, the shortest day of the year on the northern hemisphere. ...

The big bang mystery (what happened before the big bang?) may have been solved by Roger Penrose (an old friend of FF) and his coworkers a...

The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, to journalists, in response to questions about his role in the Karachi affair (one of countless Frenc...

From an interview in Der Spiegel SPIEGEL: What do you dislike most about the Tea Party? Grisham: I don't understand where these peopl...

Rohleder's new home in Berlin Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung has a feature about Alexandra Rohleder . You've heard of her? You didn...

Vanity Fair has a preview of a new satirical novel with political content by Edward Klein and John LeBoutillier involving, among other thin...

Another pleasant dinner evening chez Christine.

We've posted his censorship alert 6 hours ago, but nobody cares. Visits from Le Monde or any other of the elite French newspapers...fo...

It was 1985, before the Berlin Wall had come down, and I was visiting at the Rockefeller College of the State University of New York at Alba...

-"Do you like my new curtains?"

Earlier today we thought about putting up a post about William Hague (ex-leader of the British Conservative Party, now foreign secretary)...

Today, at the Moosalp, up 400 meters from Bürchen (us), located at a saddle point between two local mountains, with views of the Matt-tal (...

Huckleberry Finn's father, in chapter VI of Mark Twain's novel (written in 1876, situated around 1845) "Call this a govment! w...

From the English 1986 movie Blunt (Blunt was a notorious British double spy) The British is so posh, it's hard to understand. Th...

Well, not quite, but you can call it formal foreplay (perhaps better: formalized foreplay?) There they come. When we showed these p...

We are invited by a friend to spend a few days at his place in Altheim, near Frankfurt, Germany. Where to go, what to visit? We suggest Rüd...

What was this? Yes, it was a bear, or at least a representation of one. The "logo," of New Bern is the bear, Ann explains a...