Bad choice of words, as well would have been better - sorry, I'm no native speaker.

European party names translated to English are great. Here in Switzerland, there once was an Anti-PowerPoint Party, that in the end came down to a marketing gag, sadly.

I'm not sure I'd label that a breakthrough. Politics all around the world, and especially in France, is, as is remarked correctly in the article, very much a male field.

And maybe no talk of danger.

YOU are clearly a cylon! Into the air lock... oh wait, I'm already on earth.

In case you're intereste, and speak german or trust Google translate, the "salesgirl" spoke. In case you're interested, but neither applies to you, I might translate it, if you ask nicely.

Let's agree we are both odd as hell :D

Freedom to be stupid is also freedom, this country here seems to have as a guidline.

Omg. I didn't even know those things exist.

Well, I feel it is impractical to handle. As stated by alshku, those laws have every sort of unintended consequences. It doesn't seem that outdoor smoking has in fact health implications, nor can I see any safety problems.

I perfectly do. Yet smoking is an addiction, that I can halfly rationalize by the being on my own thing and halfly really enjoy for that reason. I'd press some buttons on my mobile phone otherwise, or whatever.

So adding to the "only 30 Km/h" and "no driving here" signs you'd have "no smoking here"s?

I live in Switzerland. We got some real freedom ;)

I might have never considered the problem of smoking on sideways. You guys have a point.

That example was a bit over the top. Yet it essentially comes down to it. If I'm outside in a group, and someone is unhappy with smoke blowing into her or his face, I'll gladly take another seat or simply extinguish the cigarette. And who does share benches anymore?

I am a smoker, it adds up to maybe 20 or 30 cigarettes a day, depending what I'm doing. As in: correlating to the time I spend in meetings.

True. Though some might wanna judge to be decent human beings and, say, exploit financially like all the other cranks out there.

Ain't the first cult leader to go into that direction, probably, and sadly, won't be the last.

Well, Weiner is obviously too lousy a liar to keep his extra-marital sexting under the radar. Which seriously questions, and I mean that seriously, his ability to be a politician, since politicians have to play games, have to lie sometimes - to staffers, to other politicians, maybe to voters (even if preferably not…