Up close with the cult of Obama

I'm in New York, my first time in the US, and it is a truly alien environment. I have witnessed no shootings or high-speed car chases, and I have encountered only one man masturbating in Central Park. The train emergency instructions, on every subway ticket, include the mystifying edict: 'Do not pull the emergency cord.' This may be the land of the free, but it is also the home of single-ply loo roll.