It is difficult to describe a drone strike accurately. On October 24, 2012, Bibi Mamana and her grandchildren were gathering firewood or picking okra outside their home. They may have been in a field. Perhaps it was a militant compound … Read more →
Rentrer de ma promenade photo matinale pour découvrir, perdu entre les factures et les pubs, une boite de chocolats suisse envoyée par un lecteur du blog, c’est plutôt sympabon — un très grand merci à Olivier pour ce savoureux cadeau … Read more →
As a follow up to the previous post, a very interesting talk from Eric X. Li : A tale of two political systems — thank you Richard, for the link. Democraty is becoming a perpetual cycle of elect and regret. … Read more →
Democracy is a rather crap form of government, with several failure modes (of which the tendency to converge on an oligarchy is but one), but it has one huge advantage over other forms of government: it provides a mechanism for … Read more →
Zooey Deschanel the Latest Musician to Impose Anti-Photo Policy. Si cette “politique” anti-photo de concert — qu’elle soit motivée par la rapacité (le droit à l’image), par le désir de contrôler l’image de l’artiste (ne surtout pas avoir l’air con … Read more →