Uneasy Rhetoric

Happy Veterans Day, (or Remembrance Day, or Armistice Day) everyone.  May we one day celebrate this day as only a memory, a lesson learned, a chapter in our human history closed but never forgotten. And I can’t help but wonder, no Willie McBride, Do all those who lie here know why they died? Did you [...]

That huge dog you see walking up J Street is actually a donkey. Wearing a straw hat.

Today is Saint David’s Day, patron saint of Wales. So when you’re off at the bar tonight, remember to raise a glass to that part of the British realm that is not represented on the Union Jack. But don’t feel like you have to wear a leek in your hat. Those are some big vegetables. [...]

Puteaux, illuminations Halloween, boulevard Richard Wallace Originally uploaded by Grébert. I have a love-hate relationship with the holiday season, but I secretly enjoy public decoration (even if I sometimes scoff at it publicly). Our cities don’t really go all out for Halloween, but Christophe Grébert (Mon Puteaux) posts some great pictures from his Parisian suburb. [...]