1.0 link 11014 <![CDATA[Three Cheers for French Riots!]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-gavin/three-cheers-for-french-r_b_11014.html Anyone remember those scenes on MTV’s “Beavis and Butthead” show, where Beavis would either see—or be playing with—some form of fire and he’d inevitably erupt into orgasmic ecstasy, screaming wildly, “Heh, heh, heh, Fire! Fire! Fire!”

Am I dating myself? (Or just revealing that I watched too much MTV as a teenager…)

Well, I couldn’t get Beavis’ fire fetish out of my mind as I watched the reaction by many Republicans to the recent (and now dissipating, if not entirely dissipated) riots...

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