Author: Bookworm

Edith Piaf

I’ve been an Edith Piaf fan since I was a teenager.  When I was about 14, I discovered amongst my parents records a 1950s “Best of” album with songs from post-war French singers, including Charles Trenet and Edith Piaf (these French performers were enormously popular after WWII).  Turns out that

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Bizarro land

Here’s Lorie Byrd, who also blogs at Wizbang, on the disconnect between liberal myths in the media and the reality: In liberal fantasyland, George Bush is not only the “biggest terrorist in the world,” as Cindy Sheehan proclaims, but Bush and his administration are the only people who said Saddam

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