The French presidential election is in full swing here, and the BBC has an excellent article on the subject here. It's fascinating to me to have twelve presidential candidates all getting equal air time, even the obvious crackpots. It's also quite strange to have virulently anti-capitalist Marxist parties fielding candidates being taken seriously in the 21st century, given the success record of closed-market economics, but it's oddly entertaining as well, and even the loopier ideas can sometimes provide new ways of dealing with real problems.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Remodeling
The French presidential election is in full swing here, and the BBC has an excellent article on the subject here. It's fascinating to me to have twelve presidential candidates all getting equal air time, even the obvious crackpots. It's also quite strange to have virulently anti-capitalist Marxist parties fielding candidates being taken seriously in the 21st century, given the success record of closed-market economics, but it's oddly entertaining as well, and even the loopier ideas can sometimes provide new ways of dealing with real problems.
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2 comments:
Looks like a good move.
Meilleurs voeux!!
Hello Trever, just a precision. This statue represents Mr. Hulot, the character created with the cinema by Jacques Tati. At the beginning, the statue smoked the pipe well, but it stolen, and was ever replaced. One does not imagine Hulot without his pipe!
Happy smoking
Guillaume
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