I'm particularly down on the state of the union today.

Certain of my more liberal friends have been playing chicken little since Bush's inauguration, but I've always been a believer that the genius of American democracy is that it corrects itself toward the center. So, despite some distaste for Bush, I felt assured that a sudden and disastrous turn right would be impossible in our country. Too sharp a turn would only serve to insure the election of someone liberal enough to correct the centrist course. I still have hope, but I'm not quite as certain as I once was.

But my point today wasn't to complain about our hollow-headed President and the Masonic cabal directing him. It was to say that, when I get to feeling this way about America, I tend to idealize the British as an unfailingly reasonable and level-headed people. Then an article like this reminds me that, while they put up a good front, they're all, at their cores, inbred and classist eugenicists.