Obama, take it from the French

 Malraux to De Gaulle ( or to himself as De Gaulle) on Politics And History. (Their exchanges were always in capital letters):

  Rational analyses are fragile.

Obama show a little craziness. For your own good....

 

orthodoxy

When visiting catholic churches keep feeling surprised  that the mass is not in Latin. And when I meet Russians wonder how come they don't know Dostoevsky. Or Marxist dialectic....

Ahead of the Times

This blog.
Could not figure out how my post on Saint Simon got  noticed. It turns out Jakie O was recommending his memoirs to her husband.
As to my Sunday post on smiling, See this on laughter.
Correction - Snobs do not smile,  they sneaker-.