I'm not an American but....

[Biggy]

Originally Posted by Timon

It's amazing to me that you took the effort to type all that just to explain you are amazed people give a shit

seriously.

[Almighty Colin]

The Jimi Hendrix version is still the best.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Almighty Colin

The Jimi Hendrix version is still the best.

That was one amazing performance.

My reaction is based on how I was raised. The "social rules," if you will, that were taught when I was in school, and for generations before me. I have no idea exactly when it broke down, but break down it did.

I've never seen the way an American crowd acts at a hockey game, at least not for 20 some odd years when I watched hockey with my father. I do feel, however, that if the Canadian anthem isn't met with respect, the Canadian hockey team should be allowed to pile into the audience and start taking people out with their handy wooden sticks.

We're supposed to care. It's wrong to stop caring just because a shitload of other people don't. That's how we end up with people like this asshole singing the national anthem to a...I can't BELIEVE this part..."Latin beat." (I'm generally very much in favor of Latin beats, by the way. Just...not here.)

I'm having another one of my "I'm glad my parents didn't live to see *this*" moments. I fucking hate those and they're coming faster and harder as time passes.

Ryan..I've seen "Runaway Jury." Liked the movie, loved the book. I generally end up reading books first, which sometimes makes it difficult to watch the movie "inspired" by it.

Trivia for Ryan: I read "The Grapes of Wrath" shortly before catching the old Henry Fonda movie on television. I was stunned to find it beginning just about word for word as the book. They had to leave out the last scene from the book, of course. Most definitely would NOT have gotten that one past the censors. I doubt they could even do it today. But, the last decent script writer left Hollywood a long time ago and forgot to turn off the lights.