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It's fashionable for politically-correct observers to suggest that adepts of conspiracy theories of all kinds are necessarily deranged, ...

I was saddened by a recent press article that evokes a forthcoming Australian report according to which the remote Australian wilderness mus...

Politicians are surely the most arrogant actors of all, because they see themselves endowed with a mandate, and they take themselves very se...

Mrs Moose's style of hairdo was popular when I first arrived in France, in 1962. To designate it, my gay friend Richard O'Sullivan ...

I was awoken early this morning by an amazing dream, in which I was actually putting together the elements of a blog article: in fact, the o...

The main street of Pont-en-Royans , just before you reach the Picard Bridge over the Bourne, used to be narrow and dangerous. The situation...

The latest version of the Dilbert website contains a growing collection of short animated sequences , some of which are excellent. Among al...

Chroniclers tell us that the Bourne at Pont-en-Royans once flowed red with blood during the so-called Wars of Religion of the 16th century....

The most exotic smoothies incorporate tropical products such as bananas, mangoes, passion fruit and prickly pears. Many typical French fruit...

One of my favorite jokes concerns a mate of the pope. And today is just the right time to tell this joke, coinciding with the arrival of Ben...

Here in France, an old-fashioned model of male underpants, with a kind of pouch to accommodate the royal jewels and scepter, has always been...

The human behavior known as cognitive dissonance is terrible stuff... or maybe I should say terribly human stuff. The background for cogn...

It's fascinating to be able to use Google Maps while sitting here in Choranche, on the edge of the French Alps, to visit virtually vario...

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene is one of the most beautiful and exciting books I've ever read, on a par with the masterpiece...

For the last few days, it has been raining intermittently but strongly at Gamone. Even the Cournouze mountain has a drenched look, and the B...

The first video in Microsoft's new publicity campaign, named Shoe Circus , aimed at popularizing their Vista operating system, is dull ...

Europeans who were up at dawn this morning [such as me], browsing through the latest news, would have learned that a political game of music...

Whenever the Tour de France runs into cold rain, icy winds, fog or sleet, you can be sure that a French cycling commentator, to describe th...

I don't claim that Pif reasons like that. In fact, as an outcome of my daily training under the guidance of animal experts such as Dawk...

I'm aware that I have no grounds for making suggestions concerning the paternity of Mrs Moose's offspring. But there's an odd ch...