But to be fair, it’s not just our youngsters who are self-deluded. You read the stuff that Hollywood celebrities say and it’s all too apparent that they also regard themselves as the brainiest of the brainy. Frankly, I can understand why such people, who are treated like royalty for no other reason than that they look pretty or can act goofy in front of the camera, would have enormous egos. However, when these folks, whose reading material consists pretty much of movie scripts and their P.R. releases, start spouting off about global warming, the Constitution and America’s foreign policy, one can’t help but long for the good old days when the studios provided the stars with their talking points, limited, for the most part, to singing the praises of their kids, their spouses and their latest release.

Next, I’d like to know why, if the United States is as racist as black bigots insist it is, how is it that Asians manage to fare so well in this country? I think even Jesse Jackson would have a tough time explaining why evil whites would expend all this time and energy keeping urban blacks poor and uneducated while allowing millions of people who were yellow and brown to achieve the American dream.

And why is it that the media, even Fox News, will regularly have such race hustlers as Al Sharpton and Charles Rangel spouting off, but I can’t ever recall seeing the likes of Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams sitting between Hannity and Colmes or across the table from Bill O’Reilly, discussing race relations.

A related question comes to mind. Namely, how is it that in the wake of Seung-hui Cho’s murderous rampage at Virginia Tech, there was widespread remorse expressed by the Korean-American community, but American Muslims so rarely condemn the world-wide butchery committed in the name of Allah that when one actually speaks out, it becomes a newsworthy event?

My final question strikes closer to home. I’d like to know why, when they created the tradition of the Tooth Fairy’s leaving money under the pillow, they didn’t also come up with the Hair Fairy? Today, I’d be a millionaire.