Attention, French natives: Do you mind if I ask you guys a personal question? How often do you folks  wash your hair?



No, I'm not trying to raise hackles (or plumes de cou, for that matter), but I recently read a  factoid online stating that 90% of Americans wash their hair every day. Well, let me tell you: never  have I felt so American in my entire life. I myself have been performing such ablutions religiously  for the last 30 years! But then "religiously" is no longer the word…

I suggest that we all observe a minute of silence for that English teacher in Rouen: you know, the one who recently asked her students to observe a minute of silence for a certain mass murderer whose victims, children included, have scarcely been laid to rest in their graves yet. I realize that the pedagog in question has  not yet been officially…