Michael is working on the text side of a comic strip/graphic novel about Plato's Symposium . Yes, the philosopher, and, yes, the canoni...

...because they are always wrong. Viz : Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857) People of African descent that are slaves or were s...

And here are a few words from today's decision, composed by Justice Anthony Kennedy: "No union is more profound than marriag...

(This is a deep post in a literal sense, so don't hesitate to scroll down:) “To be a legend, you’ve either got to be dead or exce...

Deux vieilles dames [ dames ], les voyant passer [ passing ] dans la rue princ...

(scroll down a bit) The Valais in north-western perspective ...and the view now of... Athens, 416 BC  ...our view, because...

The grass is always greener on the other side...

And while we are at it, behold this: And you know what? Chris Christie had been Roger Ailes' dream candidate for the US presi...

Westboro Baptist Church The hate group, normally obsessed with homosexuality, has accepted the offer of free tickets to Irak and stage t...

...and so are we. We don't have to explain, we guess, just click on the picture. 

   So we arrived, and went almost immediately for a hike around the Stand , a fairly flat hill structure situated above Bürchen , our hom...

Yesterday morning... ...today.

And he had a wide smile for us! (We're off to Switzerland on Thursday, when blogging will resume (hopefully); we had a very rou...

"Macht doch wenigstens das Licht aus."