November 9, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!
As I write this, there is an elephant in the room. And a donkey. And an ass. Like so many people, by mid-October I had grown weary of all the scandal-mongering, vicious accusations, desperate rationalizing, empty promises, name-calling and lies. … Read More
October 26, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!
Due to humankind’s profligate use of natural resources, the world now teeters on the brink of a planet-wide disaster with no precedent in all of history. Unless of course you count when my first girlfriend in junior high dumped me. … Read More
October 12, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!
Like everything else in the universe, the Internet has its advantages and disadvantages. Its main advantage, of course, is that it vastly facilitates communication, making it easy for me to harass women I barely know with “sext” messages. Oops — … Read More
September 28, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!
Have you ever been the only clothed person at an orgy? Me neither. For that matter, I’ve never been one of the unclothed people at an orgy. On the other hand, I have had the disconcerting experience of being the … Read More
September 13, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!
As anyone who has studied linguistics, or read this sentence, knows, every language contains words that cannot be translated directly into other languages with a single-term equivalent. For example, the French have a seven-letter word, frileux, that means “sensitive to … Read More
July 20, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!
France is, in many ways, a much more egalitarian society than the United States. Wait — that’s not quite right. I’d better start over: France is, in one way that occurs to me without thinking about it much, a slightly … Read More
July 4, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!
I’ve been living in France long enough now to become accustomed to most of its quirks and eccentricities. Some of them took me a while, like the mid-day store closures, the frequent strikes and the apparent extension of diplomatic immunity … Read More
June 22, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!
As some readers may be surprised to learn, I have very few complaints about life in France. Generally, my adopted country’s many attributes far outweigh its foibles. But there is one area in which I wish the French would make … Read More
June 8, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!
In Paris this past week, the elephant in the room was the elevation in the river. After the rainiest May on record, the Seine rose to alarming heights, bursting its banks in many places. At the sight of all that … Read More
May 25, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!
One of the great things about being a writer – in fact, one of the best reasons for becoming a writer in the first place – is that when you get caught doing something weird or embarrassing you can always … Read More