ok, last one, i promise..

<jeff> you know what's really sad, immigrants and people in other countries
+tend to more about us history than most people that were born here

kearsley told me about a canadian show that asks americans silly questions about canada to watch them be clueless.... what might be more frighteningly illuminating is asking us about our own coutry.

of course, i *suck* at history, polisci, and related; so i'd be prime candidate example A for this.