Factoids

Salon's take on the foibles of the US titled 8 appalling ways America leads the world is, without doubt, a must read. 

People uninterested in change and progress tend to cling to the jingoistic fantasy that America is an exceptional country. Often this implies that the U.S. is somehow superior to other nations. Some, like the neocons, have taken the idea of exceptionalism to mean that America should be above the law and that other countries should be remade in our image. Others, like conservative evangelicals, believe that America’s supposed exceptionalism is God’s will.

In recent decades, America has indeed pulled ahead of the global pack in a number of areas. But they aren’t necessarily things to go waving the flag over or thanking Jehovah.

As a side note, yours truly recently visited friends in Quebec. Needless to say, diet, life style and the lack of fat people walking around town, is simply astounding, something America needs to fix, along with the other 7 factoids as seen in this truly informative article.