Well, daylia, I never said you weren't feeling what you are feeling. It is your sovereign right to feel exactly what you feel.   I just think you've mis-located the target for that feeling.

But okay -- violence is certainly part of the American way just as it is part of the "way" of any x-million strangers thrown into association.

Let me point out, thought that the United States also spends billions more than any other nation in the world in helping other countries. Does this mean that charity IS THE American way?

Historically, we have more patents per capita over the centuries than any other nation. So, it is obvious that Invention is the American way. Unless you count the amount we spend buying judges and votes in Washington. Tehn it is clear that Bribery is the American way.


At one point we probably had more Christian missions out among the unconverted than any other nation, proving, for a fact, that Evangelism is the American Way.

We also, I dare say, consume more cartoons than any other nation, proving that Skimpy Unreality is the American way.

We have more outdoor cookouts than any other nation on earth, too. Clearly the American Way is to Barbecue!!

Now, don't start denying all these statistical facts -- it will only prove that you are in de nile up to your knickers.

But under all these impressive statistics is a broader statistic, which proves irrefutably that the American Way is smart aleckery and weisenheimering. That much is absolutely indisputable.

Regards,


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