Denmark was last in the news a few months ago when the nation claimed sovereignty over the North Pole

Denmark was last in the news a few months ago when the nation claimed sovereignty over the North Pole. (On the argument that it is geologically part of Greenland, Danish territory since 1814.) Now we have further confirmation that things are getting a little out of hand in this sleepy Scandinavian backwater, once known to us only for the slightly creepy fairy tales of H.

C. Andersen and the gloomy theology of S. Kierkegaard. Danish movie director Lars von Trier, at the Cannes Film Festival, was asked why his movies take an anti-American stance. He replied, "Bush is an a**hole.... So much in Denmark is American. We are a nation under influence. America fills about 60 percent of my brain. So, in fact, I am American. But I can't go there to vote and I can't change anything, because I am from a small country. So that is why I make films about America." Well, yes, so much in Denmark is American. Their freedom and national independence, for example, which wouldn't exist if the United States hadn't fought to rescue them 60 years ago. Hr. von Trier should beware the wrath of America aroused. Freedom pastry, anyone?

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