No we don't. It's just embarrassing after we shoved it down other peoples' throats.

Personally, I'm for globalization over the long term. I'd be delighted if the average salary and wealth of India was on par with the US. What I don't like is management making a quick buck with salary arbitrage. It's not fair to US workers to stick them with the costs of changing the rules overnight.

Except our massive public debt makes either significant inflation or significant taxation a real possibility here too. But good points on our schizophrenic mix of free-market and (disproportionate) protectionism.

No, nerds are social pariahs that don't want to LISTEN to anyone they went to high school with.

They'd gladly talk to anyone who would listen to *them*.

That, by the way, is what makes people bores: wanting to talk about their own interests and not being interested in others' interests. Since nerds and, say, jocks tend to have few overlapping interests, it's not surprising each considers the other bores.