2006 World Cup Soccer Will Go On!

Terrorism makes us more stupid, more self-righteous, and more apt to mouth empty cliches. That's my first reaction to this article in Le Monde about yesterday's attacks on London. Its headline -- "The World Will Not Surrender!" and its lead into proof of our united front against terrorism and the terrorists is Otto Schilly, Germany's Minister of Interior declaring that "We will not allow terrorists to dictate whether or not a major sporting event will take place," referring to the 2006 World Cup to be held in Germany next summer.

LoveByte

Singapore's government sponsored matchmaking service is called LoveByte. It seems that Singaporeans are experience the near negative population growth of other industrialized countries. But given its ruling party's love story with eugenics and top down control of everything, the Singaporean libido has become a matter of government concern and so you single Singaporeans can hand it over to LoveBytes, the online dating serve provided by Singapore's highly concerned government.

But Singapore's sex problems don't end happily with marriage after dating. It seems that Singaporeans are also not having enough sex. And so sex counseling has become the island nation's new growth industry.

Je t'expliquerai chez McDo

Granted, we take the kids to McDo here in Paris because of the Happy Meals (which contain age-appropriate gadgets), and not because of its daring advertising - but these ads, which are being blogged about quite a bit today, really capture the parental culture: the Scottish restaurant as a refuge for the nucular family in a town where most restaurants are not child-friendly...