Only in America

I have just had a great lunch with the Little One and our "St.Andrews guide" bashing the US drinking laws. I cannot imagine a UK undergrad trying to survive in a country where you cannot buy alcohol on a sunday. Cannot carry a bottle without it being wrapped in paper,cannot drink in the open and basically have to carry ID to drink until you are above the age of 40!!
All this in Massacheusetts, which is probably the most liberal state in the country. It has the best health care plan in the country, allows abortion but is very strange about alcohol laws. I can only hope that the "Land of Arnie" is different!

Also saw Spiderman 3 yesterday despite kiddo's warning. It is pretty bad but not horrible. In its defence, the fight scenes are well done, Sandman is well created and the computer graphics are good. Also, Spiderman looks quite good in his black suit. However, after that everything else goes downhill. Toby Maguire and Kirsten Dunst need to go back to acting school. The writer must try and not put three comic issues into one movie and stop producing villians at the drop of a hat. The whole movie seems to be drenched in US patriotic fervour. From homilies about good and evil to Spiderman off to rescue MJ with a fluttering Stars and Stripes behind him the whole movie seems to be a Bush apology for sending US military casualty.

There was a point where Spiderman was being bashed up and MJ about to die, when one small kid in the audience piped up and said "God will save them"!! I suspect to some extent it sums up my fear of the US.