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In defense of France

Personally, I want it all: semi-automatics and Brie, guns and butter - and all the other dairy products that big-government federal regulation has destroyed the taste of. The French may be surrender monkeys on the battlefield, but they don't throw their hands up and flee in terror just 'cause the Camembert's a bit ripe. It's the Americans who insist, oh, no, the only way to deal with this sliver of Roquefort is to set up a rigorous ongoing inspections regime. […] each French town has its own distinctive cheese. In America, the laws on semi-automatics and sodomy change every few miles, but 260 million people are subject to a ruthlessly enforced, centralised one-size-fits-all cheese regime. Americans are cheese-surrendering eating monkeys.