Uneasy Rhetoric

Yes indeed, there is an Alliance Française in Sacramento. More to the point, they look like they may be even more active than the Portland Chapter.
Or maybe not. It’s hard to tell because neither one seems to be too into updating their websites.

Here is an excellent resource. I just found out that XML doesn’t seem to recognize a lot of the HTML entities for accented characters — for example, ç does not yield: ç (in fact it creates an error), but ç does in my XML/RSS feed.
The referenced page includes both the HTML entity codes and the [...]

There is a small deblogate (n. a conglomeration of blog and debate) on whether the federal Earned Income Tax Credit or the Minimum Wage is better for low-income workers.
I am a strong advocate for both a stable, inflation-adjusted wage floor and for a refundable Earned Income Tax Credit, not for economic reasons (economics would tend [...]