Another Europe-off-the-rails update (or as I like to call it, "Fish. Barrel. Gun.") But no, really, this time I mean Europe is really off the rails. I've no doubt the French would surrender, if they could only find a suitable taker.

Since main stream media has only picked up the story on the seventh night of rioting, virtually ignoring the first six nights of riots, it fell to bloggers and lesser known sources to get the story out.

Further, rioting has spread to other European cities, and at least one fairly major publication saw this coming three years ago.

So could this be the end of Chirac and Dominique de Villepin (who is a man)? Stay tuned...