Pardon my FrenchHere’s a trivia about me. While it’s not inherently ungrammatical, I’d steer away from saying “little trivia” because trivia is already a little-known fact. I have always been ...

I wasn’t surprised, then, by the video of a French policemen shooting a teenager of Algerian descent during a routine traffic stop. The teenager was 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk.

What’s French got to do with it? In 1831, author Karl Von Miltie published a book called The Twelve Nights. In it, he wrote; “My dear Mr. Heartwell, you are come to see me at last.

It fits easily on a small plate next to my computer when I’m working, and, it is just right on my nighttable if I’m involved in a middle-of-the-night movie.