Just a few more hours, I’m on my way Photo by Ramy Kabalan on Unsplash I’m coming. Soon. I really am. I swear. Now, to say that I am rushing to meet you again would be a slight exaggeration. Not that I dislike you. You know how dear you are to me, how hard I thrive to raise... Continue Reading →
Dernier jour de l'année. Minuit. Je songe à toutes ces années qui se sont terminées de la même façon, un 31 décembre, comme cette année. Toutes ces années qui ont commencé par des promesses non tenues et ont fini en forfaiture. Tous ces 31 décembre ou j'ai pensé pouvoir encore sauver cette infime partie de... Continue Reading →
They are too strong, tool powerful for us mere mortals. They pledged allegiance to gods too vile, to masters too dark. They have taken our jobs, our homes, our families, our dreams, and trashed them on the altar of Filth. Photo by Jo Kassis They have branded us with the shameful iron of the corrupt... Continue Reading →
Behold. A hardcore right-wing capitalist, very vocal on free enterprise and economic liberties, a bit too much to the taste of a fellow hardcore left-wing socialist, desperately trying to bring this impenitent capitalist to his views and into atonement, but to no avail, taking solace in another hardcore left-wing socialist steering so much to the... Continue Reading →
Votre honneur, Je ne sais comment débuter cette plaidoirie, d'une part car je ne sais jamais comment en débuter une, d'autre part car le sujet que je souhaite plaider a été tellement rabâché que ça en est devenu le cliché le plus éculé de l'histoire moderne. Je tiens pourtant à rajouter sans prétention ma pierre... Continue Reading →
Dear Revolutionary Wherever you are, you would be glad to know that Revolution today is a word on everyone's lips in a small country on the verge of oblivion in the middle east. Photo by Joe Kassis According to your fellow Lebanese revolutionaries, revolution is the only way forward, the last chance for their homeland. I... Continue Reading →
Dictators? Well here's one with style: Gaius Julius Caesar, main antagonist in the "Asterix" comic series, also incidentally a Roman general and one whose legacy led to the relegation of the Roman republic to a mere slogan and the rise of an empire which would hold for the next 14 centuries. Not bad, considering that... Continue Reading →
"La France ne peut être la France sans la grandeur" Le Général always held the greatness of France in high esteem. He was driven by the idea that "France cannot be France without the greatness". LA grandeur. THE greatness, not just greatness. A very defined and specific greatness, one without which his France would not... Continue Reading →
The Idea Sounding Board 