Why they do it

A French “youth” of Arabic descent, interviewed by the BBC just now, gave the reason for rioting as discrimination… If your name is Abdul or Muhammad, they don’t give you a job. So hey, I know I want to hire lots of disaffected Muslim youth who burn cars and shoot policemen without provocation. Specifically, I’d Continue reading Why they do it

Saturday

I thought the blogosphere could do without me for a day or so… So we had lunch with our friend Albert and went to a show of Elizabeth Nourse‘s works. She was from Cincinnati, born just before the Civil War started. Impressionist, close friend of Mary Cassatt. She died in the early 1930’s, I think… Continue reading Saturday