Indeed, [b]to Europeans[/b], we "have lost our Mojo", but so what? Opinions are like, erm, noses, and frankly, Europe is not the world.

I too disagree with the author's "analysis". It isn't just a recent condescention - it's gone on for decades as far as I have been able to observe it personally, and it's willful degradation, of which a few tiny samples in reply "old Europe", "chocolate-makers", etal., seems to make the listeners pop a blood vessel in their needy eyes.

Just take a look at the crackpot comment above this one to see just how irrational it's become. Selective this and that, invented this and that... what it actually says or means doesn't even seem to matter, and it makes Americans go from:

- finding it funny, to:
- just trying to find it funny. To:
- being annoyed. To:
- No longer taking the critic seriously. To:
- No longer taking any of the critics fellow travellers seriously. To:
- No longer taking any of the critics fellow citizens seriously. To:
- detesting it. To:
- desesting the people who say it. To:
- detesting the entire society of the people who say it.
- But certainly not caring about the "critics"

So where's the critics' "mojo", or does it just involve selling yogurt, cars, and aircraft? What's the thing that these wise "de-mojoizers" believe in to the point of risking their well-being for? And do they try to live it? Or is it just a dream of free bus-rides, cheap rent, bad art, and getting comfortable with your learned helplessness?

Much as the hatefest the "Tips from our Readers" appears to be. I'm sure the tipster insists - really insists - again anbd again - he's patriotic. The more such a person has to cover and explain, rationalize and agonize, then we actually got it. If it hurts a bit to try and push any bad story about a nation of 302 million people - then I think we still have our Mojo.

And the people who make an effort to detest it certainly don't. You'll also note that in Austin Powers, the Mojo thief was Dr. Evil. And he died.

Have a nice day.

Maybe, but it will only last about a month. Look, it's just how they are.

You're right, The repetition is challenging.

I'll make it more interesting for you: I flew all four planes on 9-11 myself, that is, if it even happened to begin with. You read that on the internet. Go assume it's a fact.

It's amazing how I somehow magically became the cospirracy theorist to a crackpot obsessed with century-old images of Germans, AIPAC-as-mysterious-world-ruler, thinks satellites are following her around, and accepts verbatim what she reads in blogs. Newsflash, salope: I can't be president. I wasn't born on US territory.
It's all in the same thoughtless cultural trait any foreigner in France knows all too well - we are all thought inferior. No matter what the cost is to the truthlessness of what's said that the outsider may never have the last word, and the biggest and most chilling thing from these street-corner intellectuals, the rationalization that people who disagree with them are bigots. Call someone on their cretinous, dehumanizing accusations, and suddenly you're the one who has conspiracy fantasies.
It's unremitting arrogance for no reason other than their individual egos.

And Zyme, as far as I'm concerned, it isn't a matter of looking at the bright side. These people don't deserve being looked at at all. Other people don't exist for their amusement.

Tell me, How DID [b]I[/b] magically make you throw out foolish accusations? How? Go no further, until you explain how it is that my reaction to your foolish blaming and accusing created something that preceded it.

[b]Explain it. Now. I can't wait to hear it.[/b]

How is it that you're not responsible for the things you say. Tell me. After all, you know as a fact that hundreds of millions of us American get together to agree on the tricks you say we have up our sleeves for you personally, because after all you matter so much to an entire nation of people across the ocean from you than all the risk to humanity.

You're so effete, and you can spell too! I guess you'll alaways be that fish that got away. (sigh.)


I'm still waiting for that explanation.

I have a question: when are they going to run out of cities to name treaties and overblown rhetoric after? Haven't they already used Lisbon a few times? Aren't they ever going to run out of "UN cities of world culture" on the continent?

If Gov't/PGO/NGO committees rigging up wierd campaigns like that is "mojo", I think you would need to give old Betty 3 or 4 rye Manhattans so as to appear to have an actual personality.