It’s difficult to draw any other conclusions. If they can’t make it possible to fire 25 year-old, nose-picking malcontents and slackers from l’Blockbuster — in order to give some hope to unemployed car-burning nihilist mobs in the outer suburbs, mind you — they can’t do anything. Write the place off. Put a wall around the nice bits and call it Franceland. The tourists will love the quaint historical re-enactments.