“Timbuktu is outraged! Timbuktu is broken! Timbuktu has been martyred! But Timbuktu has been liberated! Liberated by itself, by its own people, with the help of the French army.” (Original text slightly modified)

It’s a happy beginning to the week. It’s good to see the happy and grateful faces of the Malian people on the path of the conquering troops. Let’s hope it lasts. 

Carla Bruni is coming out with a new album, and the English are making sure that everyone knows about it. What a blessing to be French. 
Frogs die because of pesticides. As long as we get their legs, who cares. 

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall take the subway. For him, it’s the first time in 27 years. 

The Islamists burned some old papers. They couldn’t read them so they found a better use for them. The White Fathers forgot to teach them manners, too bad for us.

A lot of gay men and women live together and have children. Here we see photos of these couples, full of love and tenderness. Not long ago they said that homosexuality was the source of many individual and social disorders. Really? 

Damascus announced that sma, the wife of Bashar al-Assad, is pregnant. It’s nice to see that these people can make love and war. When you’re healthy, you can do it all.

Thanks to the Sunday Times Magazine, I can salute the exemplary work of the editor of Trolley, Gigi Giannuzzi. I’m sending you my love, Gigi. 

Life is beautiful and spring is almost here. Don’t forget to turn your heat up before the first buds bloom. The world is getting colder, but a picture is there to back up my claims: this otter doesn’t know about the threat of oil. Better not tell her. She might get depressed. 
Have a nice week.

Michel Philippot