Religious obsession

Fellow expat Scott Callahan notes the BBC's seeming obsession with overstating the role of religion in American society.

Though, to my mind, the BBC is not the worst offender, the Guardian has long pushed the same line. A while back, Mark Lawson was telling us that "The US is a theocracy suffering from galloping spiritual inflation." And, on Saturday, Harold Bloom chimed in with his observation that the Bush administration "daily fuses more tightly together elements of oligarchy, plutocracy, and theocracy."

OMG! With all that "daily" fusion going on, pretty soon we're going to end up with an oli-pluto-theo thingy. (I'm guessing that would be a Bad Thing.)