Thursday, March 13, 2003

YOU WANT TO KISS ME HOW??

Now this is funny. The cafeteria for the House of Representatives decided it was going to be patriotic, replacing old mainstays with "freedom fries" and "freedom toast." The idea (and it is very stupid, I opine) is to boycott France in every way possible. Ridiculous.

Cut to Louisiana, where signs welcoming visitors to the state are written in French and the language is actually spoken by a significant number of natives. There, Elaine Clement, president of the Cajun heritage group Action Cadienne, objected to the congressional name change with this pithy query.

"Are they going to change French kiss to freedom kiss?"

A probing question indeed.

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