The all-singing, all-dancing Sarkozy cabinet

*Somehow, this performance is probably less weird than it looks. I'm trying to imagine an American equivalent for a political ad of this kind. I don't think there is one.

*However, I do think that America's pathetic romance with Sarah Palin has a great deal to do with the Sarkozy's desperate, but wondrously successful, lunge for Carla Bruni. They were two culture-war gambits by two right-wing parties, but hippie temptress Carla is somehow the picture of reassuring propriety while...