C'est la justice, n'est-ce pas?

At his core, Jean-Marie Le Pen, perennial Far Right wing candidate for French president, is a bigot: he always runs on a xenophobic "France for the French" platform (in addition to being Holocaust denier—which is already reason enough to loathe him). How lovely, then, that his party, Front National, has had to sell its party headquarters in a Parisian suburb... to a Chinese university.

The only more fitting karmic justice I could imagine would be Dick Cheney bankrupted by the collapse of the war-profiteering Haliburton.

Jesse Helms, Conservative Force in the Senate, Dies at 86

The opening sentence from the Times' obituary: "Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina Senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday."

In other words, Jesse Helms was on the wrong side of every important issue that faced this country in the latter part of the 20th century. How's that for an epitaph?