Archive for April, 2008
The amount of evidence in favor of the extreme but plausible hypothesis according to which Nicolas Sarkozy would be, in fact, a dangerous piece of fascist junk (but this is just a working hypothesis) is increasing slightly. This past Thursday, in a much commented TV appearance, he firmly praised against any amnesty to undocumented [...]
In the morning of Thursday April 17, 2008, at the Gare du Nord in Paris, passengers were boarding into the 8:25am Thalys train to Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amsterdam. No border control to pass, since all countries involved are all happy members of the European Community, and their border control policy fall into the Schengen [...]
The French newspaper Libération makes today available here a facsimile of a very instructive French administrative document:
“Sir,
You have expressed a request for the regularization of your administrative status in France.
I am pleased to inform you that requests for regularization are not handled through postal correspondence. You are kindly asked to proceed in person at the [...]
Parliamentarians from the ruling conservative majority in France, headed by prime minister François Fillon, attacked Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, state secretary for the environment (also polytechnic engineer specialized in biology), for allowing an opposition-backed amendment to a bill on GMOs, a bill which is fairly harmful to pollution control. But Kosciusko-Morizet replied back, aptly defining them [...]
The purpose of this post is to quickly insult the guy who destroyed Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in tonight’s new production at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. He is an idiot.
(You can perhaps trust this review from Libération, but definitely not this one from Le Monde.)
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