Only In America

As I write, I am watching the annual Rochester Christmas Parade on TV. It's rather wonderful entertainment...the 'Older People's Commission' float has just driven by, featuring "representatives of the Commission lip-synching to a variety of all your Christmas favourites."

Oh, here comes a line of Clydesdale horses: "what says holiday better than Clydesdales?", comments the announcer. Would she like a list? And here is the Holy Family school float, with a 'Live Nativity Scene'...Push, push...I think I can see a head!

And to cap it all, as the programme came back from commercials, with the announcer proclaiming, "welcome back; you can feel the sun, you can feel the holiday spirit here," what was passing by on screen?

A tank.

Ain't that America?