That great Brit Imperial Drum Beater, Niall Ferguson, now teaching History at Harvard, but on vacation in London as befits any European in August, has some choice observations for Americans, "Bone-Tired? You Need a Job in Europe:The work ethic in the EU wanes as time on the job expands in U.S."

Pity that Americans have such little leisure time. With all of the comparisons with the Roman Empire, we have many less official Circuses. Those Europeans just don't understand about the virtues of the Protestant Ethic, and how that is all part of being"born again" and"saved."