Look who's talkin'

To those who say we can sit around and do nothing (hey, just go on comedy shows), I say we can do whatever we want (hey, even go on comedy shows)--our President Barack Obama in his Saturday morning address: "To those who say we have to choose between health care reform and fiscal discipline, I say...

Back on Earth, our EU socialist paradise future--Merde in France:

"I came home starving the other day, opened the fridge, and gobbled up some pâté I found," ran one. "An hour later, my girlfriend called to ask what I'd done with the leftover cat food."

A lot of French comedy involves things going farcically wrong for other people. French doesn't have its own word for Schadenfreude, though the German word is sometimes used. But there is a proverb that goes: "Le malheur des uns fait le bonheur des autres," or "One person's misfortune is another's happiness."

There you go. 

They have started an English language website, F My Life. 

Nobel prize winning U of C Econ professor Gary Becker pushes back--Now is no time to give up on markets. More here.