Well, of course, the best thing to come out of America is Sharkey!

After that, yeah, jazz is the great gift of America to the world. That just about makes up for Kentucky Fried Cat, MacNazi burgers and the Croissandwich.

And I have to admit that the American Novel in the twentieth century contibuted more to the quality of English - speaking lieterature than any other Anglophone culture.

And chipmunks just have to be the cutest furry mammals on the planet.

Now, will all this get me through four more yeas of Bush and the prospect of reactionary, right - wing, religiously bigoted rule stretching into the future? I guess it will have to...

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