Date: November 3rd, 2005

City of light, city of flames

3 November, 2005 (12:33) | France, Housing, Slums, World news |

Sooner or later, slums always explode. 
 
They may slumber for months, years, even decades, but always — always — they go up in flames. 
 
I wish this were not so, but it is.
 
 
Paris, November, 2005
 
Something awful is happening in Paris, and I fear this may only the beginning.  As the Washington Post describes it:
 
PARIS, Nov. [...]