Mousethief - I never DO eat them...but what can I do when our TV and all our media are saturated with American programming and American advertising, and each new generation of Canadian youngsters trots out dutifully and eats them? That's what I'm talking about here. They're all tuned into Survivor and Ally McBeal up here.

They did a survey a while back, and half the kids in our public schools didn't even know we have a prime minister in Canada...they thought we had a president! It's pathetic.

That's why the internal divisions in the USA offer us a glimmer of hope. It makes things look better here. Imagine how relieved the Gauls and Germanic and Brittanic tribes felt when the Romans were fighting wars amongst themselves. Same principle applies. When the Chinese are divided amongst themselves, the Vietnamese can relax for a while.

- LH