French National Assembly deputy Thomas Thevenoud is quite proud with his iPad Scrabble score of 102, bragging that it is proof that his brain was still working at “3 in the morning” during a long, drawn-out debate on same-sex marriage that lasted roughly 10 days.
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Scrabble Leads to Scandal © LifeSupercharger
Distractions, and their fools, are frequent subjects of tweets and scandalizing attacks in France as well as in the United States. Jerome Guedj, another deputy for the National Assembly, has commiserated with Thevenoud saying that he sometimes reads a newspaper or plays Scrabble because the debates become “pointless discussions.” This shocking, outrageous behavior was all over the news last week but the change in policy that permits same-sex marriage in France was almost an afterthought.
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