Archive for France Inter
feu rouge
Posted in pictures with tags 1962, cross-words, Czechoslovakia, destalinisation, France Inter, French, mots-croisés, Prague, pun, Stalin, statue on February 8, 2020 by xi'an
fake maths
Posted in Statistics with tags best science images of the year, France Inter, getty images, maths, national public radio, pedagogy on December 3, 2019 by xi'an
quote of the year
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Algeria independence war, anti-semitism, apology of war crimes, European Parliament, extreme-right, France Inter, Front National, Jean-Marie le Pen, quotes, racism on October 19, 2019 by xi'an
“J’ai eu une vie assez droite, je ne me suis jamais conduit comme un salaud” [I have lived a rather righteous life, I never behaved like a bastard]
Jean-Marie le Pen [condemned for apology of war crimes (1969), contestation of crimes against humanity (2009), Holocaust denial (1988, 2006), antisemitism (1986), racial hatred (2005, 2008), provocation to discrimination against Muslims (2004, 2006) and Roma (2017), and insults (1993, 1998, 2018), demoted of his European parliamentary immunity (1997), suspended from the European parliament for assault (2000), suspected of misappropriation of public funds (2019) and of torture in Algeria, founder of the extreme-right Front National (1972), &tc., &tc., speaking on France Inter]
Young Americans
Posted in Travel with tags 1975, David Bowie, David Robert Jones, France Inter, LP, soul, Young Americans on May 25, 2019 by xi'an
I heard this song from David Bowie’s 1975 album on the [national public] radio the other day and it reminded me this was one of the first LPs I bought… and played till it was no longer audible.
the last argument of drivers
Posted in Travel with tags car accidents, France Inter, French elections, gilets jaunes, speed limit, SUV, The Last Argument of Kings, wind farms on February 2, 2019 by xi'an
When vaguely listening to the national public radio France Inter last night, while cooking dinner, I heard Patrick Septiers, president of le conseil départemental de Seine et Marne, express his (electorate catering) opposition to the new 80km/h speed limit on national and departmental roads on the most rational (!) argument that delivery trucks drove at that speed already and hence that the speed limit would “force” car drivers to break the law to pass trucks. Along with similarly rational claims to have each department regulate its speed limits on the basis it was financing most roads. (I had another illustration of the rationality above when walking by a big SUV this morning, with a large sticker against wind farms.)
