We tuned in to BBC World today around 5:30 our time to watch the swearing in of the new administration in America. That was fun. I’ll hold my commentary. It’s not important anyway and I want to stay in the attitude of honoring that everyone musters for this day. All I really want to say is, “Hey foreign people – stop pickin’ on America!”

As soon as you meet non-Americans, you hear how Americans know nothing about the world outside of their own borders and how that’s really too bad, because they’re so powerful and they should be better informed. Well. After listening to a bunch of nonsense from BBC World, we switched over to N-TV, which is a German news channel, and listened to a bunch of nonsense in German.

“You have to realize how important this is – Rick Warren has basically just taken on the position of the nation’s chaplain, by saying the inaugural prayer.” What? That’s ridiculous!

“Of course with children this age you think of the famous photo where Caroline Kennedy as a very small girl sat under her father’s desk in the Oval Office as he worked.” Huh? How can you mistake John John for Caroline?

“Here is Aretha Franklin singing the national anthem of the United States.” My personal favorite, because in my country, that song is known as My Country, Tis of Thee… decidedly NOT the national anthem.

Yeah. So there.