June 2007
(27th June 2007)
I subscribe to Google news alerts for "toilet," "latrine" and "sanitation." I gave up subscribing to alerts about "shit," because it was all invective. Then again, until I read this, which turned up in the "latrine" alert today from a newsgroup about smoking, I didn't know what proper invective was.UltraMan: You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag ...
→ Fadela
(24th June 2007)
A while back I wrote this for G2 about Fadela Amara, a mouthy beurette (of Arab descent) who runs ni putes ni soumises, a French feminist movement which knocks traditional French feminism - too intellectual or too culturally relativist and not much inbetween - into a cocked hat. Last week, President Sarkozy nominated Fadela as Minister for towns and cities. She accepted ...