Those Americans are being so mean! Doggone them! At least, the British press says so. And they should know. There's no indication of it in the American press, which you'd think would be joining in the Brit-bashing if it were an anti-Brit free-for-all. But maybe it's a cover-up conspiracy. Yeah, that's it. If any American newspaper or cable news show or anything looks like it's about to say anything that might spill the beans about our increasing hatred of the United Kingdom, they are hushed by the fellows in the black helicopters and the designer shades.

Anybody? 50p / 25¢ will go a long way toward buying a roll of aluminum foil. (Buy a man a tinfoil hat and you keep him safe from ionizing brain rays for a day. Buy him a roll of aluminum foil and you keep him safe for weeks, easily.)