Today’s Times reports on the massive human catastrophe in France, in which thousands upon thousands of people, mostly elderly, died from the heat. Two things stand out about the story. First, it seems that quite a few French people refused to interrupt their vacations to come home and bury grandmere; they had her put on cold storage until they got home. Second, the head of the country’s nursing home association says the answer to what ails France isn’t more freon, but — you knew this was coming — more socialism!