There was a quant old time, you might remember it, when baseball was our national pastime. Where two teams would battle it out and in the end there was a triumphant victor and a vanquished foe. Yeah there was a time like that… but not anymore. Now if there is anything that truly defines American culture is how much we enjoy the humiliation of others. We sit on our couches and watch as people who can’t sing embarrass themselves on national television by singing “She Bangs”. In watching this the rest of us are more assured that even though we may have failed at our jobs for the day at least we can carry a tune. Instead of counting our own successes we measure our self worth by the public failure of others. Thru this we have found that a majority of Americans would get into their bathing suits on national television and put things into their mouths that they wouldn’t otherwise touch for $50,000 and for 1 million dollars, well, there really isn’t much that we wouldn’t do. So to all the failures in the world I say “Thanks. You guys really make me look less weird!”