Fundamentalists in Europe can learn from American openness

PLEASE, could we just shut up about the American presidential election? Now we have it sorted, I mean. Now that we’ve established the fault lies with redneck born agains over there who voted for him in such numbers.

It would nearly put you off the Christmas shopping trip to New York, so it would.

Up to last week, we thought America was a big diverse society, but this week we learned they were really one big Bible belt hiding 51 million religious fundamentalists from us. Gun totin’ religious maniacs, all of them: anti-abortion, anti-stem-cell research. Beer drinkin’, boot scootin’, Bible-totin’ unsophisticates, too thick to deserve democracy.