Captain Ibrahim Traoré is doing amazing things in Burkina Faso. He is standing on the shoulders of the giant Thomas Sankara. This is the leadership African nations needs, not puppets that are doing the bidding of western governments and businesses.

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FWIW, I'm not being entirely flippant. Those students are fighting for their future, and I applaud them.

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I'm going to Paris at the end of the month, and if I wasn't taking my mother (the most timid, anxious woman in the world,) I'd be so thrilled to be going. IMO seeing Paris during protests is to witness Paris in her purest form, no?

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Man, obviously I'm not in Michigan and maybe AES and I might have different policy preferences on, like, the right marginal tax rate but damn is it hard not to like the guy and the way he wraps himself in the Constitution, in our best traditions here is how all of our politicians should sound.

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