America again

Here I am again. New England this time. Here are some more curiosities:

1. Nowadays, all the car adverts announce loudly their fuel economy figures. And 30 mpg is good, seemingly. Folks, it isn't.

2. I love the way Sen. Obama keeps talking about wanting to help middle-class families. I can't imagine any of the British political parties saying that.

3. Socialism is a bit silly, but the venom being directed towards Mr. Obama, on the charge that he looks like a socialist, is quite staggering.

Does that have anything to do with my normal blog topic? Not particularly, save to say that "good news for the poor" doesn't seem to feature big in either party's rhetoric. Nothing new there, then. But I don't really understand America. That much is clear. After all, I still don't know what baseball is for.