Mademoiselle Filippetti
Posted on 05/06/2014 7:39:13 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
Thomas Piketty, the “rock star” economist, has been accused of beating his former girlfriend Aurelie Filippetti, France’s culture minister.
The 42-year-old economist’s affair with Ms Filippetti, 40, ended after she lodged a complaint with Paris police about an attack in 2009.
Mr Piketty, whose bestelling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, has been praised by Unite union boss Len McCluskey and an advisers of Ed Miliband, was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence shortly after the report. He denied any wrongdoing but was placed under formal investigation on March 17 of that year.
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People who think the world owes them, think other people owe them the satifaction of allowing them to hit other people....
Would Laz hit it?
Much better than expressing possibly racist comments in your own home. Pulitzer prize coming?
Her income was unequal, so she deserved it.
But I wouldn't smack it or beat it.
How does a frenchman commit suicide?
He points a gun 3 feet over his head and fires
He saw a search for “Austrian Economists” on her browser and became suspicious.
Just like good ol Dinsdale Piranah.
Oh yes he was vicious — but fair.
Sure he nailed my head to the floor, but I deserved it.
He had to, didn’t he? I mean be fair, there was nothing else he could do. I mean I had transgressed the unwritten law.
He didn’t “want” to nail my head to the floor, I had to insist. He wanted to let me off. There’s nothing Dinsdale wouldn’t do for you.
I was terrified of Dinsdale. Everyone was terrified of Dinsdale. I’ve seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Dinsdale. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Dinsdale. ........He used........ sarcasm. He knew all the tricks........ dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and........(takes a drink)........ satire.
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