From the "Stuff You Didn't Know" File: Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV) has a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering and received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT. Also, he has a 3rd degree black belt in Karate and plays the drums.
It works the same way over here, too, except that most of our elected leaders have forgotten that. Hence, nothing ever gets done in the Legislature, and the President has to threaten to use his "phone and pen" to make things happen.
And for the record, I'll take a Lazy Town marathon each and every day if it means I don't have to watch Caillou. I wanna stuff that bald-headed whiner in a box and mail him postage due to Estonia.