"....Iam not snotty, just realistic ..."

In this case, they are indistinguishable.

*I* try to follow the overall news, but not everyone is automatically up to date. I have no doubt there are many important US issues that YOU would not recognize an oblique reference to!

This is an international forum, so it's polite to be **clear** what you're on about.

**back to the regularly scheduled smug remarks**