"Bush: 'I don't see how you can be president without a relationship with the Lord'..."

Hee. i suppose my dad will run for Prez.

He has a relationship with the Lord, and basically, he'd like to kick His Holy Ass.

You may be discounting the degree to which entire countries can live or die by the actions of the US, countries which have far less leverage (being third world) than Canada may have.

ita has a good point. I don't think I bristle much at foreign criticisms of U.S. government policy, and I always enjoy a good Bush-bashing. I am a little testy which people from other countries who start sentences with "Americans are just too....(selfish, impatient, ignorant, provincial, etc.)" There are very few statements that cover all Americans. For that matter, I get testy with Southerners who make blanket statements about New Yorkers, when I have probably been helped by more nice strangers in New York than any other city.

Shrift, I think the fact that you've been working 24/7 since Clinton was in office is the reason you have a backache.

Upon reflection, I realized that, hey, I've been working 10-12 hour days non-stop for... the last six months.

Huh.

Despite the pile of work on my desk, this is inspiring me to leave as soon I possibly can. I will go buy comics and beer. And then I will sit on my ass an watch pretty, scantily-clad people for a couple of hours.

I bristle at stupid criticisms of everybody. But absolutely reserve the right to call a spade a spade, whether it is here or in France.

(Which country I do actually like, and would not boycott nice food for a political purpose even if I did not like the country it came from.)

By this logic, I am occasionally required to admit that, e.g., the New York Yankees as a team do not actively worship the devil and eat babies. Having admitted this, I feel that my assertion that, e.g., Alex Rodriguez occasionally reaches for the funyuns and chows down baby brains instead, will be taken as a reasoned opinion, rather that as a stupid criticism.

There is no fun like hair-splitting. Hair-splitting is where it's at.

I have been known to mock the French and the British with pleasure. Though, in the case of the French, that flipped right around to defending them during the Freedom Fries debacle. And in both cases, it is more out of affectionate knowledge of both countries.

By this logic, I am occasionally required to admit that, e.g., the New York Yankees as a team do not actively worship the devil and eat babies.

Then that's just insane troll logic.

I have been known to mock the British myself, although mostly over things like eating baked beans on baked potatoes and their fondness for standing in queues.

By this logic, I am occasionally required to admit that, e.g., the New York Yankees as a team do not actively worship the devil and eat babies.

t Bookmarks post...

As with everything, saying t insert group here is too t insert generalization cuts both ways. I was going to say it always bothers me when people make fun of the south, but it doesn't. It bothers me when people look down on the south and southerners. Of course, it also bothers me when people yell about their southern pride without acknowledging its darkside. That's not love and pride. That's idolization.

I have been known to mock the British myself, although mostly over things like eating baked beans on baked potatoes and their fondness for standing in queues.

I favor the Simpsonian slanders: The Big Book of British Smiles and Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys.

I also mock French literature (20th century) and culture in general, though I am a huge fan of French film.

I am buried under a pile of work so large I think it may have been a mudslide.