Arthur, le phantome.

They are voting in France. I have been following french politics since I was eigth , nine. Grew up with Vaillant - Yves le Loup and Pif. Every week was waiting for Ragnar le Vikling and all the others. The postman who was late or hiding my issues or circulating them before delivering. Oh? these were not French politicians? They were exciting.  Wha? They were not even french people?  Doing the right thing. Generous and courageous.
Now they are all fighting for the Le Pen voters.

OWS NIMBY

I was walking on the empty street when a policemen told me to move onto the sidewalk. There was no car anywhere five hundred feet all around.
These were nothing when some idiot policeman pepper sprayed them into public attention.
There was no cars, no demonstration, so regular pedestrians took over the entire street. A nice afternoon  stroll on Bway.
Was thinking I am with OWS, just hope they are not going to complicate my commute home.
 OWS NIMBY

As I was making left on Prince St. they showed up. First, municipal union reps, sad and thin in numbers.
At the end there were quite joyous young people. A good show. 1st of May. Better than than the Thanksgiving parade.

dubious data

One would say that science based on hard data leads to hard truths. Incontestable. In fact there is not even  agreement on the basic phrasing-  data are or data is?