[Seruzawa]

Here they come again. Only this time they are already inside the border.

[Reily]

The French have always had a Fascist streak in them.

[aspasia]

Hey, that's German. And too pedestrian.

Ping this to the philosophers:

Capitalist democracy has a problem with public health. The premises of political and economic liberalism, which organize society around the self-directed and self-interested action of individuals in accordance with generally-binding laws, are incompatible with those of modern “medical consciousness.”[1] The latter understands society as a space in which contagion flows from one body to another, or rather sees society as a single, ailing organism. Unlike the famous body politic depicted on the frontispiece of Hobbes’ Leviathan, in which a multitude of individuals composes a sovereign super-individual, the social body seen by “medical consciousness,” like those of the people it contains, is porous, vulnerable and teeming with pathogens. linky

[rolling_stone]

why are there so any trees on les Champs Elysees?

so the Germans could march in the shade....