The briefest of notes on what's wrong with America

And it is not, just for the record, health care reform. That, I think, is going as nicely as can be expected.

No, dear reader, what's wrong with America is the fact that Nicole Scherzinger gets up a moment ago on Dancing with the Stars and performs a lovely Viennese waltz to much acclaim and nobody says a peep about the fact that her boyfriend, reigning Formula One Champion Lewis Hamilton (on an off week between races in Bahrain and Australia), is sitting in the audience. I bet the two people on either side of him didn't even know who he was.

No wonder the Europeans think we are idiots.

I mean, there are other reasons. But this surely would be the most salient.