Picture me with a giant WTF? balloon floating above my head. The article seems like just another reason to BOMB FRANCE! WOOHOO!

Can't wait until Paleo reads this.

Jogging? But I am le tired...

Spend a week reading about Eastern European politics. We're only starting to get good at this.

That picture does indeed capture my majestic owlishness.

That one does not.

I thought jogging and aerobics represented the transformation from the Hippie 'we' generation to a focus on the 'me' generation. Well, thats what some documentary over lunch today was spouting by coincidence.

Bah, maybe those French intellectuals dont like jogging cause it's higher impact.. it requires having a spine.

I play ultimate frisbee and occasional pickup games of football, soccer, and softball. Where does that put me on the political spectrum?

I also like Whirlyball, in case that changes my results.

I have to have an SUV before I get an expensive gym membership? Crap!

I'd get a gym membership, but I'd probably feel satisfied with just running there and back.

On second thought:
Discouraging jogging may be a smart thing in a country that doesnt have a widespread belief in deodorant.

Of course the French don't like jogging. That would cut in to their smoking and not working time.

Quintin, you'll love this, but the Gold's Gym in Durham has a paved path around it and the hotel beside it. People jog around the buildings beside the overburdened parking lot. It always made me scratch my head. Maybe you have to pay for the privilege of running on their pavement?

Would any hotel sound more appealing because, "We boast an entirely paved jog-way around our hotel! Visit the parking lot! Tour the dumpsters! You're in the park now, baby!"

I've been in Minneapolis for the last couple days playing in a hockey tournament and just caught this.

I think the whole discussion of whether or not running is "right wing" could only occur in France, where the combination of anti-American sentiment and oversensitivity to class distinction makes for some pretty faulty pattern recognition. It is American, therefore it is Right Wing. Though I can't really laugh too hard since Americans from the antebellum South apparently believe that jullianed, fried potatoes must be a symbol of limp-wristed homosexuality because they have the word "French" in them.

As for me, I'll continue to run and to eat french fries. Though I'll try to be disgusted at myself for both.

I think criticizing all the "French" and calling them lazy and smokers etc. just because some parts of the French media are being stupid (take a look at our own media first) is pretty pathetic. I realize it's all fun and games but try not to make generalizations and offend too many people, thanks.