You may have noticed that being critical of America is not offensive to many Americans, who're pretty much involved in the same enterprise.

Heh. Yeah, I had noticed that!

Check out the marathons! Get your husband to watch with you. Stargate is a pretty guy-friendly TV series. Lots of explosions and big battles and cool technology. Apparently cjl is something of a fan as well. He's not totally fannish the way I am, but he does like it. He calls it a "cracking good sci-fi adventure" :)