Note to French bashers: if you’re gonna make fun of us, this is the way to do it!
Except for the use of the (capitalized!) “frog” slur, which has no place in a magazine like Time (would they use the word Beaners to refer to Mexicans? Yeah, right!), it makes fun of some of our probl...
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A good friend of mine, very conservative, says that Obama won’t win.
No matter what the polls say.
It’s the Bradley/Wilder effect, he says!
I think he’s right. What do you think?
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Lova Rakotomalala
· 4:06 pm
· Cuba · France · Italy · U.S.A.
It seems increasingly clear that Florida once again is going to be critical factor in the elections. Both Republican nominee Senator John McCain and Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama know it. According to polls, the battle will again be very close. French blogger, Laure de Montalembert surveys the Floridian electoral landscape and tries to understand the factors that matter to Floridian voters.
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After telling the world for decades that free markets always knew best even in the worst of financial crises (remember Mexico, Russia or Thailand?) , the U.S. government is now the proud owner and operator of… an insurance company!
My Zeus, between its sudden love for small and energy efficient ca...
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Lova Rakotomalala
· 2:56 am
· Belgium · France · Kenya · Rwanda
With pessimistic views abounding on the economy, the two presidential candidates are pressured to each provide their strategy for exiting the crisis. Lova Rakotomalala brings us reactions from French speaking blogs.
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[This is a guest post by mbast]
One of the recent topics around here was one where French fighters won a mock dogfight contest against the US Air Force. Very nice, but if you want to “cocorico” about our Frenchie Air Force, there’s a much more compelling reason. Actually, it’s way up there w...
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Charles Bremner, the Paris correspondent for the Murdoch-owned British newspaper The Times, is your typical closeted French-basher. Won’t call you names directly, but will never lose an opportunity to put you back in your place, and to show you how superior the Brits really are. Cherry-picking fac...
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Lance Armstrong is coming out of retirement, and he says he will try to win an 8th Tour de France.
Many Americans agree, good for him, and good for cycling.
The Tour de France organizers are not so thrilled.
Neither are some fellow riders [fr – Google translation]
Two paragraphs of the Vanity Fair...
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Couple of favors to return.
First, to Froufrou, a “Brit girl raised in Frogland.” After reading the post about Alain Bernard, she had this to say about French-bashing:
More bashing, surrender jokes, arrogance claims. Now I am so tired of these, mainly cause whatever I do I’ll be th...
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