> ...it's not "about half," as some people have said...

At one point early on, I did a forum search on your name and counted posts that picked at American culture in some way. I can't remember the numbers, but there were an odd number of posts at the time, and the total was either one post under or one post over the 50% mark. I actually don't doubt that the percentage has declined since then, but that hadn't occurred to me until I started thinking about it just now. Anyway, that's where that figure came from.

At any rate, thank you for this post, and there are no hard feelings here.