Recent content by Yosemite Sam

If I'm going to have to type in my username everytime I visit the site, can I change it to something with two letters? YS

Interesting Q&A with an escort on the Freakonomics blog: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/superfreakonomics-book-club-allie-the-escort-answers-your-questions/ Also the book excerpt on escorting...

Americans generally have a fetish with French, as do most (but not all) well-educated English Canadians. Just look at the "Education" section of iTunes podcasts: Five of the top 15 are French classes. French has a romantic place in the international Anglo's imagination that other languages...

I also noticed the Richler reference in Ocoq's handle. Unlike Dr. Who, however, I actually believed he was from out West as he claimed. I just assumed he read the book back when he was a teenager, and he has hated French Quebec ever since. Alternatively, perhaps he already hated Quebec and...

I don't understand why the Mods just don't enforce the original ban on Ocoq, imposed back when he was Anglophuck. It would save the board a whole lot of problems. Tolerating someone who blatantly sidesteps bans by registering a new user name just reduces respect for the Mods' decisions...

As a longtime lurker, it's been clear to me since he showed up that Mr. Ocoq was none other than Anglophuck, who spent much of last winter spewing anti-French venom until he was permanently banned back in January. I'm surprised the Mods haven't picked up on it, particularly since -- unlike...