Recall yesterday I told you about the Olympic figureskating controversy, in which judges from countries with rational political cultures lined up against judges from countries whose cultures place less value on truth. Well now it appears that judges from two of the latter countries, Russia and France, had a tit for tat deal.

Think about this. The Soviet Union invented techniques to brush enemies of the state out of photographs, while France produced deconstructionist theory. Should we be surprised that their representative judges seem to have trouble maintaining the integrity of their positions?