On a recent episode of the Tonight show, Jay Leno asked his studio audience how many had watched a presidential debate broadcast the previous evening. Out of the few thousand folks in the audience, not a single hand went up. However, most of them had watched the continuing prison saga of Paris Hilton. I know many readers will shrug their shoulders and sneer, “What do you expect from a Jay Leno audience?” However, leaving aside the intellectual types, I believe his audience represents a fair cross section of American society – even while conceding that Los Angeles can hardly be said to be ‘typical’ America.