Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
I’ll continue the concept of Pamela’s excellent article with another long shot possibility that may have been made by Barack Obama. I agree with Pamela that all this smoke may be a screen for another VP pick. With that as a basis I’ll bring another name to the list. A name I know very well.
Wes [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Since I have just received my DVD of this great film, I thought I’d re-post the review I wrote at The Global Sociology Blog.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a wonderful and harrowing adaptation of the book of the same name by Jean-Dominique Bauby (”Jean-Do”, as everyone calls him). Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
From Le Nouvel Observateur, we get this appalling story. Here is how it goes, a man sues a hospital because his baby is born handicapped due to neurological problems during labor. Pretty straightforward, huh? Not so: the child is now disabled because when problems arose during labor, the father physically prevented male ob-gyns and other [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Frenchdoc
For those of you unfamiliar with the 60s in France, Brigitte Bardot was a HUGE movie star and singer. She became a sex symbol especially through Roger Vadim’s film And God Created Woman (am I showing my age??) and the best songwriters composed for her. After the “refrigerator stars” of the 40s and 50s in [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Yup, you read that right and it happened in France, via Le Monde . So here is the story: this Muslim guy marries a young woman who told her she was a virgin. On the wedding night, he discovers - shock and horror - that she is not. The guy brings the daughter back to [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
Via Le Monde , this is a common topic for sociologists and for right-wing hacks. For the latter, poor boys, they whine, are doing worse in schools because their masculine nature (biologically encoded) are repressed by the feminized liberal teachers. Schools (especially public schools, of course) have been perverted by [...]
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