Scott Simon
Scott Simon
Scott Simon is an American journalist and the host of Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth16 March 1952
couple night vacation
So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.
presidential vote clinton
Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, but he won more than 12 million votes in the primaries and was respectfully and elaborately saluted by Hillary Clinton, whom he has endorsed.
charlie-hebdo trying way
I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.
charlie-hebdo years knowing
Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. And they understood the kind of release from piety that it represented every week.
parent cost pay
It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.
charlie-hebdo anarchist clown
Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.
charlie-hebdo kind anarchist
Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right of Le Pen's. If anything could identify their politics, they were kinds of anarchists.
charlie-hebdo onions might
Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show." This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct.