What?

I don't understand. Roger Cohen says many things which I do not understand.

That was before Nicolas Sarkozy, who never saw a habit he didn’t want to overturn, became president 14 months ago. Now we have another beautiful singer, who happens to be his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, strumming these lines to him on her new album:

“I gave you my body, my soul and my chrysanthemum/ For I am yours/ you are my lord, you are my darling/ you are my orgy/ you are my folly.”

Old and settled in its ways? I think not. America’s first lady may love her man, but not like this. France has stepped out of hibernation on amphetamines.

What?

But this man is a tonic to his country and the most important European leader of his time.

The most important man in Europe in the past 14 months? What?

Because you can’t build a Europe that’s divided toward the United States, as Iraq illustrated, his pro-Americanism has aided E.U. cohesiveness.

What?

In the same way, his warmth toward Israel has given France the room to emerge as a credible Middle Eastern intermediary.

What?

Maybe my salmonella is acting up again but I do not understand anything in this.

Inaugral Post

Well, it is almost three in the morning, I have to be at work in six hours and I am drunk. This seemed like a good time to finally usher in something I had wanted to do for a while. I had some other ideas about names, including "sober as carps in a bathtub" (it struck me as too ironic, too detached and reeking of the urge to appear self-nullifying) and "Dmitri Medvedev is 5'4" tall," but ultimately I decided on the title you see above. If any of the other (hopeful) contributors would like to alter this or give their feedback, my addled imagination would more than welcome it.

Because I'm unable to offer any original commentary at the moment, here is a really, really good rebuttal to the recent op-eds in the New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor about Obama's "apostasy" as someone with a Muslim father who was raised as a Christian.