FRANCE
France’s Secular Opposition to Gay Marriage
A couple of days ago, around 200 protesters gathered in the central plaza in Toulouse to protest proposed legislation to make gay marriage legal. In France, like in the United States, same-sex marriage is a point of contention. But, unlike in the...
World Peace Update
This is a little awkward, but I just figured out that the guys on the Norwegian Nobel Comittee haven't been following this column, because if they had they surely wouldn't have awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union this week.
We Got Drunk on This Weird Booze Spray
The WA|HH is a little aerosol spray that aims to provide "the feeling of being drunk, without actually being drunk or feeling sick." It is apparently way more effective when sprayed over food, so we figured we'd try some with our lunch.
Happy Science Is the Laziest Cult Ever
Last Saturday I had an appointment with the Parisian branch of Happy Science, a syncretic Japanese sect that appears to be made up of the most contradictory, gross, bizarre ideas the world has ever mustered up.
World Peace Update
While the rest of you have spent the last couple of weeks or so salivating over Usain Bolt's extensive limbs and laughing at London Mayor Boris Johnson's hairdo, I've been researching the ways in which the Olympic spirit has once again failed us. We're...
Plight of the Concorde
Remembering the Concorde, Flight 4590, and an insatiable appetite for jet fuel.
The Second Coming of Christ-a-Go-Go!
Our Christ-a-Go-Go article from the December issue has risen! Behold, more photos of Africans worshipping inside an abandoned slaughterhouse in France.
Vive Le Tarnac Nine!
Historically ignored by the rest of France, Limousin has recently come to prominence due to events in a tiny, inaccessible mountain village of about 100 people called Tarnac.
This Means (sort Of) War!
Front National was founded in France in 1972, with a far-right platform that included stipends for stay-at-home moms, restrictions on abortions, and a candid opposition to immigration by African and Middle Eastern Muslims.
Teenage Suicide
A couple of days later, another body was found, about one week dead. Are you seeing a pattern here? It’s like, whaaaaat? 13-year-old track-and-field player Jean DaBord had overdosed on his infirm grandmother’s prescriptions while lying in bed beside...