Steyn howler

Mark Steyn, over the past year, has evolved into my favorite observer of contemporary events. He is most reminiscient of P.J. O'Rourke in his ability to make me laugh while presenting brutally clear arguments. I added Steyn to the blogroll if you want to read more of his work. His latest post at NRO is about the shoddy treatment suffered by Brit PM Gordon Brown at the hands of The Dear Leader. Regarding the tacky gift of 25 DVDs, Steyn writes:

Evidently, the White House gift shop was all out of “MY GOVERNMENT DELEGATION WENT TO WASHINGTON AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT” T-shirts. Still, the “classic American movies” set is a pretty good substitute, and it can set you back as much as $38.99 at Wal-Mart: Lot of classics in there, I’m sure — Casablanca, Citizen Kane, The Sound of Music — though this sort of collection always slips in a couple of Dude, Where’s My Car? 3 and PoliceAcademy 12 just to make up the numbers. I’ll be interested to know if Mr. Brown has anything to play the films on back home, since U.S.-format DVDs don’t work in United Kingdom DVD players.