tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post3505449581801038375..comments2024-03-15T00:12:57.489-07:00Comments on Covenant Zone: France's Counter-Culture At Worktruepeershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-30063857247405925152008-07-04T08:35:00.000-07:002008-07-04T08:35:00.000-07:00Humourists and satirists are absolutely essential ...Humourists and satirists are absolutely essential in order to have a free society. Tyrants can't stand them!<BR/>How many stand-up comedians are there in North Korea, or Zimbabwe? And how may will there be in Canada if the current BC HRT case goes against the poor Toronto comedian?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-85528797942469554242008-07-04T08:20:00.000-07:002008-07-04T08:20:00.000-07:00Zazie, when I watch the che fan club become so eas...Zazie, when I watch the che fan club become so easily talked out of their t-shirts, I guess I see a "mind half-full" instead of a "mind half-empty"... so many times all it takes is a good example, or a good argument, to get someone to change, for the better. (Not always, of course... but often.)<BR/><BR/>It shows that when we act, **if** we act, we can make a difference. Even when we feel there's only "one" of us. Because there's never only one, it's just that we haven't found the others yet. <BR/><BR/>When I was learning French by talking with my French friends in my neighborhood, before I was old enough to go to school, I used to believe that the French word for hope, "espoir", was derived from the French word for breath, "respirer", probably because I wasn't pronouncing it right as it came out of my four or five-year old mouth... anyway, even if it's not, it should be, because such a connection would show that hope is something that's induced, we make it happen, and that we need to make it happen.. it's an essential part of life. <BR/><BR/>You do much good for your country's future, as you write here and there at English blogs, because the kindness, wisdom and gratitude behind your words all declare for the world to see that France is not a lost cause... there are still good people there, even if they don't make the news headlines nearly as often as the bad.<BR/><BR/>And that's the kind of news that we all need to hear.Charles Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18168475254263681673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-32954149831150474942008-07-04T01:25:00.000-07:002008-07-04T01:25:00.000-07:00Judging from the sheer stupidity of those who expl...Judging from the sheer stupidity of those who explain they wear such t shirts "because they are pretty" or "because it is a gift" and are perfectly unable to say who and what the Che or CCCP stand for, I can't agree with blazing cat fur that there is some hope for the French...<BR/> Yet the mere fact there is a counter culture able to conduct those interviews, and courageous enough to do so, is like a sunray on a foggy day! It is important for me of course since as a French I'd like to retain "some hope"!zaziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02639722488366613594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-74615952144187038852008-07-03T22:22:00.000-07:002008-07-03T22:22:00.000-07:00LOL. I haven't studied or spoken French in 30 yea...LOL. I haven't studied or spoken French in 30 years, but I understood every word they said.<BR/><BR/>Merci!Findalishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02881549378886491540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-89945110479339097782008-07-03T17:44:00.000-07:002008-07-03T17:44:00.000-07:00There is hope for the French;)There is hope for the French;)Blazingcatfurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05260488914265052543noreply@blogger.com