Spengler is Full of Shit

OK, so Susan Boyle is not particularly extraordinary. While we fall over ourselves to celebrate her, Spangler reminds us that sixty million Chinese kids are practicing violin, piano, and soon, taking-the-world-over. We're all going soft. Nuts!

If China had an equivalent TV show to American Idol, and the aged wife of a poor Suzhou rice farmer managed to make it to the TV auditions belting out respectable takes on classic songs, I suspect the Chinese people would embrace her as warmly as we've all embraced the unlikely Scots songbird.