France has surrendered to the idea that America will probably go to war with Iraq no matter what they do, so they decided to not make an issue of it and instead stress areas of agreement. That’s so rational of them, I almost can’t believe it. Is this the beginning of a new friendly relationship between France and America? Then what happens to French hating? I can’t imagine ever giving that up; that hatred of France was passed on from my grandfather to my father and then to me – and one day I hope to pass it on to my own children. It’s a scary thing to think I may have to give it up, for what legacy of a snooty country to make fun of will be left for the future?

But, to remind me of why I disdained the French in first place, Jacques Chirac has proposed a world tax to fight poverty. Oh, yippee, global wealth redistribution. I already had proposed my own world tax called the “other-country tax.” Being another country than the U.S. puts an extra burden on America’s efforts to keep the world from getting all blowed up, so this is a luxury tax on all nations that wish to be independent of the U.S.A. I’m sure a lot of other-countries won’t like this idea, but they don’t have to like it; they just have to get their money in before what shall become known as “cruise-missile day.”