Great article in the latest New Yorker about the upcoming presidential elections in France. First round is this Sunday. Can't wait!

The article has a great quote from one of the smarter journalists back home, Christine Ockrent:

[Sarkozy is] part of the world we live in at its frenetic pace. That world—the risk, the obscene money—that’s Sarko. But do the French want to be exposed to that? If that’s what they want, he’ll win. But I’m not sure that they want to join the real world. Most of the old political crowd—they know nothing about globalization, about the economy. Not even the businessmen do. They are political, but they are not tied to politics. If they want the illusion of their nice French shelter, Sarkozy will lose.

Pretty much sums it up.

Meanwhile, turns out Segolene Royal's son is really quite the looker:

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