We usually don't do this, pictures of ourselves. But there you (we) are, with Chang Man Y. (oriental wisdom), Sacha F. (visuals), and M...

FF has held the Baron in high esteem, raving about him as the Minister of good looks , misunderstood by 12 year old Japanese females who ow...

So, Samuel P. Huntington discovered the Davos Man in the '90s in his article (later book) on the Clash of Civilizations , an answer t...

The washed-up scriptwriter sends this picture... ...and writes: "Found this picture while searching for images of operating rooms th...

"You are not my long-lost half-sister. No-no. Not you!"

We post comments to New York Times articles on their web edition fairly frequently ("follow me, follow me") , and today we post...

North of Grasse, at ca 1200m altitude, the Cote d'Azur features a plateau of surprising dimensions, built into the mountains, as it wer...

Robert Hall Robert Hall, murderer to his beloved wife, Joanne, went without a picture on the internet. How suspicious (even yours truly h...

Senior moment - A 98 year old woman in the UK wrote this to her bank: Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for bouncing my cheque with wh...

We had met him the day before at dinner with Cliona, our neighbor, and Yael, a friend of Cliona. We are all invited over for drinks at his...

You study philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, and you see yourself as a midrange intellectual all your life, and you cringe at the ...

We've posted on this before . FF's position is unambiguous: a Rolls Royce is the only proper car for an evening out at the opera, i...

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...