Articles on living forever, how to defeat Mitt Romney, Rick’s move, Gordon Brown on the G20, the ‘precious horse’, and travel notes.

Like fake innovation in consumer products, is all that ‘medical research’ useful?

New York Times – Trying to Live Forever
Almost every day I read about a new medical study that says I would be healthier if, for example, I ate more fish, drank red rather than white wine, took enchinacea, or began practicing yoga.

Weird Mitt.

New York Times -- Mormonism and Mitt Romney’s “Weirdness”
Thanks to the current spate of awful economic news, we pretty much know what kind of re-election campaign Barack Obama is going to wage.

Related.

How Rick Perry Became the Unity Candidate of the GOP
During the last few weeks, Texas Governor Rick Perry, who is said to be on the very brink of launching a presidential bid, has said and done some things that would have been big trouble, and perhaps mortally damaging, to most politicians.

Gordo’s back!  (ed’s note – no extra strokes)

Washington Post -- Global crisis calls for G-20 growth pact
The Group of 20 set three global tasks in 2009. The first was to prevent recession from turning into depression.

Nice Baoma.

Financial Times --  Chinese car buyers show off with a ‘Baoma’
By Patti Waldmeir and Shirley Chen in Shanghai
China may have grown powerful enough to lecture the US on its debt problems but, when it comes to luxury cars, most local consumers still do not trust their own automotive industry.

Travel notes – Paris

You may not be able to get bread in many neighourhoods in mid-August but the sixty-five dollar taxi ride in 25 minutes from Charles de Gaulle to La Duree on the Champs-Elysees for lunch and six boxes of their amazing macaroons is a great trade off. 

While waiting for our pile of cookies (about a 30 minute wait) I spoke with our server who confirmed  that while the Japanese are still steady customers, the Chinois are flooding the shop.

BMers and macaroons from Paris.

Thank goodness for the Sheraton Hotel that sits in the international terminal at Charles de Gaulle where we can recover from our first bout of jet lag, and if we had known, could have got our macaroons in a la Duree kiosk right in front of our check in gate a eight minute walk from the hotel.

Merde.