SUPREME BEING GIVEN KEYS TO PARIS

We admit it, the AFP suckered us with this headline. Here's who we thought the Parisians had resurrected. Happily it was only Diana Ross.

US singing great Diana Ross has received the keys to Paris - actually a big medal - from the city's mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, who paid homage to her "immense talent".

"The values you espouse, dear Diana, are the values of Paris," Delanoe said.

Ah, the values of Paris. Here is another espouser of Parisian values:

On October 4, 2003, the city of Paris made an honorary citizen of celebrated US death row inmate and black activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, falsely accused [yet correctly convicted, which conviction was upheld on appeal] and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

Black activist Angela Davis, a former member of the Black Panthers and the Communist Party, hailed the "profound sense of humanity" of Abu-Jamal, attacking American unilateralism and racist attacks against immigrants.

The movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal "takes on a new sense in face of American unilateralism, the aggression against the Iraqi people and the racist attacks against immigrants which can only further gnaw away at the vestiges of democracy in the United States," said Davis, a professor at the University of California in Santa Cruz.

[Yes, that is an enormous bloated Angela Davis with big hair in the story link picture.]

Raising his fist in a sign of solidarity, Delanoe then shouted "Mumia is a Parisian!" as the crowd cheered and applauded.

Without comment on Ms. Ross, we hold Parisian values to be cheap and false.