Pure Skin

Everyone is talking about this photograph . O is on vacation at the beach , so he does not violate my "Men in Shorts" rules . Now, let's talk about that torso... There was a time when everyone tsked about the mere m…

Wrote Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë in a letter published today by the New York Times on the subject of the impending possible appointment of Caroline Kennedy to the U.S. Senate. Except it wasn't Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë.…

I'm not sure whether I'm bothered more by the form or the substance of this sentence. It's from a NYT article by Michael Kimmelman headlined "A Lowbrow in High Office Ruffles France," and it follows the lin…

... to go on a picnic -- a peekneek -- with George Bush. But she won't! She's a French-style political spouse. She Cécilia Sarkozy. She had a "throat ailment" -- she had a mal de gorge -- mal de George.

You don't have to understand French to understand this: Make up your own translation. (Via Metafilter .)