Don't yell at me. Your wife is the one who leaves the apple pies on the window sill to cool.

I met LEP at my very first meet, discovering a remarkable man, despite being old enough to know who Eddie Stanky was. Im sad you're so  furious, but that's better than my depression. As much as you can, keep your voice heard here on ET.

All the best, and many healthy more to come.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

Happy, happy birthday LEP!! Your pictures and your posts always brighten my day. Just you keep counting those years my friend, and don't let the turkeys (or greedy conservative bastards) get you down. Good things are surely bound to come our way if we can just live long enough.

LEP, that's three-quarters of a century there. I don't even know if we should believe you. In fact, I don't.

So I hope you're having an amazingly happy twenty-fifth birthday. Keep coming in here to remind us that the world is not entirely fucked-up and depressing. Thank you for doing that.

and I'll be off to see "the lights". I'd light a candle for your birthday, LEP, but I might be mistaken for a worshipper of Our Lady of Fourvière, and neither of us would like that.

I wonder who I'll bump into tonight? That was pretty freaky last year, when we bumped into your daughter's best friend. Like last year, I'll be running around trying to locate my daughter. She has lost her key to the apartment.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Happy birthday, LEP.

The lack of a leader isn't a disadvantage, I think. They can't let us down then. We will have to find ways to organise and lead ourselves.

Happy Birthday indeed, I didn't know they fitted 25 year old brains in 75 year old bodies :)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Furious maybe, but ultra-compassionate with it. We oldies need causes to keep us alert and alive, and your photos of demonstrations, and the things that interest you, show how involved you remain.

A bar in Paris.
Sven: "Look at that painting of those two old fogies - that'll be us in 20 years"
LEP: "It's a mirror"

You can't be me, I'm taken

Happy birthday LEP!  I was thinking of you earlier and I pop in and here we are, birthday time again!

I turned 33 last week which means it is 15 years since I was 18 and I don't like that too much. I guess I'll be furious at 75 too.

Serenity Prayer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.

And the friends to help me widen the range of things I can influence...

Index of Frank's Diaries

Hell hath no fury like a man whose hopes have been scorned :-)

Stay angry, stay foolish :-)  

More photos.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

Happy birthday, LEP, and good thing you're furious: it shows you've been paying attention, and we do need that in France (and elsewhere).

Stéphane Hessel has written Indignez vous! at the age of 93, so the best of your career is still ahead of you, that's all I'm sayin' :)

Happy Birthday (even if I wouldn't count it on my own behalf, since I only count the ones that end in '0' ever since I passed 30).


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

Happy Birthday. :)

There are many things to be angry about, but being 75 and on ET isn't one of them. :)

Happy birthday LEP! And many more!

I think the lack of leadership is not an accident. It is part of the whole neo-liberal and neo-conservative economics package. The goal is to cede leadership the the wealthy so bunglers are put forward as choices to the electorate and the electorate is propagandized to reject vision, passion and determination as "dangerous".

It is maddening to watch, but it is one of those pivotal times that we are privileged or condemned to live through. Keep on keeping on.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

OMG what a bunch of old farts we are. (With some exceptions.)

Happy birthday LEP! I hear you...All this mess makes me angry too. I wonder what else is in front of us and why the heck we have to go through all of this instead of having peace now when we are getting old(er). But then again it must be life...We may consider ourselves lucky if we are not to witness another WW.
I never was an optimist, ha-ha, but this is what counts for optimism nowadays, ha-ha.
Not a thing is in our hands but we can (still) cry and get furious at least here on ET.
Good to see you here...keep going.


Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind...Albert Einstein

Happy Birthday LEP. When do you plan to visit DC again? I hear they are holding a spot open down at "McPherson Sq".  

I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. _ Blood Sweat & Tears

Hi Len, a late but very, very Happy Birthday and may the new year of your life also be filled with many happy experiences, despite the challenging times. :-D

A belated happy birthday to you. Your brain seems to be functioning very well.

luis_de_sousa@mastodon.social

Wow, four kids and... how many wives is that again? ;)

Belated birthday wishes, but sincere for a' that!

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

Happy Birthday indeed.

And although we hope the light burns for a long time yet, this guy knew how you felt

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

keep to the Fen Causeway

Happy birthday, Len.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

I'm late, but Happy Birthday, LEP!

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

I am way late, but better late than never. Happy Birthday my good man! Make sure to take a pause from your rage occasionally to smell the flowers and keep taking great photos! Damn man, we are all getting older...I turn 60 in April! Anyway, blessings for the coming year to the only person I ever met who was a Martin Luther King Jrs "I have a dream" speech - keep the dream alive! Peace! - Bob

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia