You know that famous scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” where the people inside the restaurant by the gas station are just beginning to understand that the birds have got a mean streak? It’s an amazing piece of screenwriting that makes me think of tax holidays in America. In that scene in “The Birds,” one woman, i.e. the expert, has been insisting that birds of different species don’t have the social network to work together to act aggressively against people. Another insists… Read more

May 2009 – Republican U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee declared an end to Freedom Fries last week when he converted to Francophilia. On April 25 Senator Alexander gave the Republican Weekly Address in which he explained that Republicans can now applaud “the contrary French” whose president “runs around sounding like a Republican.” He further explained that if Republicans had it their way the U.S. might be eligible to join France in the European Union. And if we were more… Read more

Not only is Congress eating French fries but Republicans are now claiming that Democrats aren’t Francophile enough. On April 25 Senator Alexander gave the Republican Weekly Address in which he explained that Republicans can now applaud “the contrary French” whose president “runs around sounding like a Republican.” He further explained that if Republicans had it their way the U.S. might be eligible to join France in the European Union. And if we were more like France then our energy… Read more