Archive for February 21, 2009

Paris Walk

February 21, 2009

Today, we walked down la rue Bonaparte from the Jardin du Luxembourg  and stopped before the Fontaine in la Place St. Sulpice.  “L’église Saint-Sulpice,” a Google search tells us,” est l’un des lieux de l’action du roman Da Vinci Code, qui fait passer à tort le méridien de Paris par le gnomon et l’obélisque.” and [...]

France and California, Ungovernable

February 21, 2009

History tells us that there is nothing inherent in human nature that brings the peoples of one nation together and enables them to act in concert. For populations within countries, no more and no less than the members of a single family, will never be of a single mind but will always represent opposing points [...]


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