The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

The elder Frenchling mentioned this on the flight from Paris to Montreal.  I hadn't seen it and so we watched in in our hotel room this ...

I love Paul Fussell's books.  Yes, he is an arrogant SOB but he writes well and he is never more entertaining then when he is being cond...

A few weeks ago I went off to Paris to a cute little bar called Joe Allen's for a public debrief of what happened during Overseas Americ...

Outstanding weather here in Versailles today.  Too pretty to stay inside so I gardened and my spouse painted the front porch.  Here are a fe...

Every 6 months I find myself a fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi (between the precipice and the wolf).   Earlier this week I had my che...

Last night I finally picked up Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-first Century .  I'm barely fifty pages into the book now and ye...

Congratulations America.  Exports really took off last quarter. Not only did the U.S. Commerce Department report  that sales of American p...