Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.
Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.
The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.
America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled around, I was incapable of enjoying the day's activities, of being in the moment, because I was already dreading the inevitable goodbye of Sunday evening.
Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.
For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
The world is very different today than it was in 1968.