Wait a minute, I like cheese Despite quite a few predictions in blogland that Le Pen would do better—much better, I tell you—than the conventional wisdom expected, it appears the CW was right. Chirac got about 82% of the vote. Le Pen got barely two percentage points more than he did a few weeks ago.

Somehow I doubt this will stop anyone from writing their already-planned blog essays about the perfidiousness (and imminent moral collapse) of the French. And when we’ve finished them off, on to Belgium! [04:32 PM]