The Post-Partisan Emporium

  France Burning EUGYPPIUS I didn’t post yesterday. I’ve been researching a longer piece on MERS, but it seemed inappropriate to send it out with France in flames. The worst of the violence seems to have subsided, but the destruction has been considerable:  As of yesterday  600 or more vehicles have been torched and nearly 500 buildings damaged, 74 of which were likewise set on fire, among them  the Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar in Marseille . There have been at least 20 attacks on police barracks, and even one on the home of L’Hay-les-Roses mayor Vincent Jeanbrun. Rioters  crashed a car onto his terrace  and attacked his fleeing family with fireworks, putting his wife in hospital. There have been around 2,000 arrests, and as of yesterday perhaps 500 police injuries. Probably the intensity of the violence has been greater  than in 2005 , but there is hope at least that it will be of shorter duration, with less damage overall. The right-thinking European press, in its deep originality, has

Since the video on the Petrson's channel was deleted (censored) in the DNC/Democratic Party video platform (youtube)... Here it is for those that want to watch it.

  The Koala: A Creature for Our Time Adapted from a talk intended for the edification of older students in a secondary school LIBRARIAN OF CELAENO The koala is an arboreal mammal native to Australia, one of that island nation’s most iconic fauna.  Though commonly called a ‘koala bear,’ it is not closely related to ursines, nor indeed is even a placental mammal, but rather a marsupial like the kangaroo, giving live birth to an almost larval offspring which then nurses in a pouch until maturity.  Koalas are medium sized animals, averaging about three feet in length and weighing about thirty pounds or so, with some sexual dimorphism.  They are also retarded. [Image found through Google] As a disclaimer, I use that term in its purely clinical sense, and in no way do I mean to imply anything pejorative about this animal or any person.  I mean only that the koala as a species displays categorically the characteristics of developmental problems related to its cognitive function.  All koalas h