It was easier for the French to abolish feudalism and the monarchy than to make the price of bread low and stable.

“You have to leave and you can never come back” — absolutely life-affirming words to say when you have to spend all day being professionally friendly and helpful.

Have been interested in the rising use of “neighbor” as the relation of solidarity identified by anti-ICE protests. Your neighbors may be very different from you, but they’re made familiar—made yours—by a kind of ordinary proximity.

Clooney only did ads outside the US for this reason. He made millions as the spokesperson for Nespresso everywhere besides America and, anecdotally, I have heard a French person refer to a Nespresso machine as “Clooney.” Anway, he became a French citizen last month.

I agree this is probably right (Occam's razor being applied), but its placement is evidently so suggestive of other images and scenarios -- and, as William Empson said, the English prepositions exist in several dimensions...

I have the bigger one that looks more like an old-fashioned mountaineering pack and it is, indeed, indestructible

these people are fraudsters selling snake oil and after their reforms crash and burn they'll be on to the next institution to do the same song and dance

the president is not an elected sovereign. he does not speak for the people or embody their will, he merely represents them. if he wants to change the constitution, let him make his case.

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