Filmmakers Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine think left-wing, shit-disturbing director Michael Moore is on the right side of the major issues facing the United States. The question they ask is could he be more truthful in addressing them in his films.

Some pre-teenaged louts who repulsed a Cornwall, PEI town councillor by twirling a dead chipmunk in front of her have set off an anguished debate about youthful mores, parental responsibility, budding serial killers and the sanctity of life.

The weepy one, who died of colon cancer, had this to say about regrets over the collapse of the Praise The Lord ministry she ran with her corrupt, philandering ex-husband, Jim Bakker. From the BBC story:

"I believe when I leave this Earth because I love the Lord, am going straight to heaven," a gaunt Messner told CNN's Larry King in an interview on 19 July.

Asked by King if she had any regrets, she said: "I don't think about it, Larry, because it's a waste of good brain space."

From the NYT:

France is the country that produced the Enlightenment, Descartes’s one-liner, “I think, therefore I am,” and the solemn pontifications of Jean-Paul Sartre and other celebrity philosophers.

But in the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, thinking has lost its cachet.

In proposing a tax-cut law last week, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde bluntly advised the French people to abandon their “old national habit.”

“France is a country that thinks,” she told the National Assembly. “There is hardly an ideology that we haven’t turned into a theory. We have in our libraries enough to talk about for centuries to come. This is why I would like to tell you: Enough thinking, already. Roll up your sleeves.”

Citing Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” she said the French should work harder, earn more and be rewarded with lower taxes if they get rich.

Well-known French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, who has written a book on de Tocqueville, had this rejoinder: This is the sort of thing you can hear in cafe conversations from morons who drink too much."