Is Running 'Undignified' Exercise?

In today's Post, we learn that new French president Sarkozy is a runner and that some folks in France, especially on the Left, have a problem with running/jogging. As in, they are ideologically opposed to it. "Sarkozy has fueled a French suspicion that running is for self-centered individualists like Americans . . . ." Like that Jimmy Carter guy, I guess.

This is a great example of something that I actually find kind of funny, and that's the effort by some intellectuals to categorize all aspects of life according to some scale of, um, political correctness. Is running "politically correct"? No--it is a self-centered activity. Play a team sport instead. But this happens on both sides of the political aisle, as when the NRO folks came up with a list of the greatest "conservative" rock-n-roll songs.