In a conversation about German citizens' responsibility for the Holocaust, Adrianne mentioned something that I've been meaning to comment on:

There are so many people around us who have no idea about anything at all. Jay Leno makes fun of them, putting them on TV when they guess "Canada" when he asks them to name a country we're at war in, but there's a surprising (to me at least) number of such people.

The idiocy of the people on that Leno skit is unbelievable. Quite literally. I don't believe it.

As Adrianne correctly points out, there are some people out there that are mind-numbingly misinformed. But some of the answers on that show are so amazingly outlandish that it absolutely has to be a set-up. But then how would Leno's crew be able to do that without someone coming forward told that they had to lie? They don't, really. I think there is an informal understanding when someone gets the mic put up to their face: Say something stupid, be on TV. Demonstrate your knowledge, don't get on TV.

With that arrangement, I'd even probably be willing to say that the US was at war with Canada.

Maybe.