The root of my disappointment is the end of my hopes that we would one day meet, and become best buds/lovers/colleagues, etc. So my phrase is nostalgie de l’avenir.

God’s Not Dead I: they came for our God.

Le Pen is yet another Putin-supported politician, and openly so. Whatever the result of this election, he certainly has exploited the flaws and divisions in Europe and elsewhere.

It’s an adult temper tantrum. For some reason, women are more licensed than men to pitch fits in public. I mean, can anyone imagine the public reaction to a man carrying on in a similar way to a woman, or even to another man?

Yes, and no. True, I’ve haven’t seen anyone flat out asserting that false accusations never happen. But whenever any particular case comes up (and most stories center around individual cases), discussion of the possible innocence of the accused or alternate scenarios is stepped on, and stepped on hard. No, not all…

Oh, you. You had me going for a while. So close to certain Gawker media posters. Kudos.

True, good point.

Rumour has it that Ed Anger (recently out of rehab) is going to take over from Bill O’Reilly.

Ninety-nine percent of that kind of thing is posturing. But imagine the trouble you would have gotten into, if one time they took you up on it, especially in today’s online culture: “Monster Teacher Tells Children to Fight” with a carefully edited video. It would be all over Gawker media, for instance.

You bring up something I wondered about — how did the stroller even get on the plane? Even the small, fold-up ones are easy to see. In any airport I have ever been in, they have to be checked, before you even get to the gate area.

Self-preserving and made with vodka? Oddly enough, so am I.

Self-preserving and made with vodka? Oddly enough, so am I.

Too bad he didn’t put more effort into a reason why the family didn’t simply run away.

Whenever they fail to give information like size, I always think of this from Hitchiker’s Guide:

Why, the world is only 5000 to 6000 years old. I thought everyone knew that.

Above all, don’t sleep with a hagfish.

...the goal of which is spiritual purification that will lead to a higher level of understanding...

I’m terribly sorry about your experience. Mine was the opposite: they were prompt, thorough, and extremely understanding. They sent both a man and a woman, which I appreciated, though frankly I found the male officer easier to talk to.

As you say, no shit.

In 1980s, a man in a car passed another car illegally. It was broad daylight on the flat, treeless Canadian prairie. No one was drunk. What could go wrong?

Oh, you and your facts.