From the outside

Often the most insightful cultural analysis comes from outside, rather than inside, because people don't notice the irregular if the irregular is obvious (thanks to cultural practice).

Jeremy Clarkson takes a look at America the paranoid, America the police state, America the land of the permit:

The united states of total paranoia

Has America become the land of the small minded, toenail-staring, bureaucrats?

It is beginning to appear that way to outsiders.