rough time for france

it's been a bad bit of time for france: continued EU expansion along with NATO expansion dilutes its influence, double digit unemployment, EU rejection, and so on.

perceived favorite paris just lost its bid to host 2012 olympics to 'arch-rival' london. apparently, the votes that dropped off from bids from eliminated bidding cities of Madrid, New York and Moscow switched to london rather than paris.

¶ - nitish @ 12:27 PM