"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men"

Samuel Adams' marvelous quote has given birth to a new blog, Brushfires of Freedom (sounds almost like Bushfires, but that was not intentional)…

Setting such types of brushfire is not something that the French would be wont to do, according to a famous thinker:

Francis Fukuyama characterizes France as a Low Trust society, in contrast to the US, UK and Germany, which are High Trust. Low Trust means that people only trust within their own families and the state has to do all the organizing. The UK & US tendency to form clubs, innovate and take risks just does not exist in France. In consequence …

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Besides showing the type of photo that French media do not devote a lot of time on, Gandalf has a French joke (which is also — furrowing brow— an American/Cuban/North Korean joke)…

Meanwhile, Loose Coins is back (after a hiatus of only four months this time)…