It’s the American way.Current example number 1: Barack Obama declares generational war against Hillary Clinton.

Current example number 2: the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa declares war against the groupthink at the Middle East Studies Association.

Ongoing example number 3: MSNBC declared war on Fox in 2003. Today, in late 2007, it’s on for real.

Ongoing example number 4: Christian-themed pop culture (you and I, dear readers, may have never sampled any of it, but it certainly exists—and it takes in a huge amount of dough).