While the big discussion in Washington (other than the snow) lately seems to have been the atavistic Tea Party Convention and the various fantasies of the American that were put on display within (I won’t link to anything since, remember, I’m no longer reading about US politics), the debate about national identity in France, an [...]
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When Free came out in 1993, “The Gun and Bible” was instantly my favorite track. It’s a funny and absurd song, funny and absurd in the way that genocide is funny and absurd, that manages, by twisting and repeating one bizarre sample (discounting the coda about drinking and shooting), to efface the cold objectivity of [...]
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Libération had an interesting article yesterday about the explosion in popularity in France of foie gras that has also been certified as halal. The stuff is flying off the shelves, apparently. The issue of whether foie gras (which involves torturing the animal before killing it) can actually ever be halal aside, the readings of the [...]
