Paris debate: Obama = Delanoe?
Last night over sushi delivered to my apartment, I had an interesting conversation with two friends, one French, the other an English ex-pat based out of Brussels, about the upcoming US election in...
View ArticleYou get what you deserve
I awoke this morning to find on the frontpage of Huffington Post the following headline: "McCain gets 38.9 million viewers... Beats Obama." I was surprised to say the least, because I can't watch more...
View ArticleIn celebration of America - 10 Things we do well...
If you've read my other diaries or profile, you will understand that I am originally from South Carolina, lived in Los Angeles but then decided to move to Paris. I'm hardly a cheer-leader for all...
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Celebrating France's Bastille Day - Ten Things the French do well
Recently I wrote a post about celebrating ten things America is still good at doing, and in the interest of fraternite with my newly adopted home of France, it is perhaps laudable to consider those...
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Fairy Tales do come true - a gay wedding memoir
Martin and me on our wedding day - May 31st, 2014, Paris, France“Wham-o!” Chris cried out. Walking with a big grin on his face he surprised me as he sauntered into my bar, unexpected and unannounced....
View ArticleNeither Bernie nor Hillary will bring about any real change
I'm writing this in my apartment in Paris, recovering from surgery for appendicitis. Living in France these past nine years, I feel less and less like an American, and more and more like a European,...
View ArticleHow to keep Pence from pulling a Ford
So a bit of strategic chess playing, thinking a few steps ahead of our opponents. By now, former-Pr*sident Trump has flown into exile to Putin’s Russia, one step ahead of the FBI perp-walking him out...
View ArticleWe deserve this (2 things)
Give us the unredacted Mueller report…Do your job, Congress, investigate, impeach!Just two things. That is all I want, and hopefully, what any sane, politically engaged progressive can reasonably call...
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