Number 39 – Their archaeologists pander to and defraud the public

First of all I'd like to point out that archeologists is the US spelling, I have spelt the word the English way (or rather, the correct way) above.
The example given by Mr Grasse is that of the Piltdown Man, and I have to say, he is correct in stating that the Piltdown Man is a fraud, however it did not just fool British archaeologists, it fooled people the world over for 40 years.
All that being said Mr Grasse is wrong on a couple of counts firstly the jawbone was from an orang-utan not a chimpanzee, the teeth were from a chimpanzee.
The reason it fooled people the world over is because it was remarkably well done, it proved the theory of the time, that we developed the large modern brain before the modern omnivorous diet.
Can anyone name any other hoaxes that have fooled people for years, but then turn out to be hoaxes? How about the famous video of the Bigfoot taken by Roger Patterson? Or maybe the the Cardiff Giant, which American people flocked to see in their thousands until it was discovered that the Giant was no more than a crude modern statue that had been buried to make it look old (this happened in 1869, 43 years before the Piltdown Man).

Number 38 – They never got over the war of 1812

What Mr Grasse fails to point out is what the war of 1812 was actually about, it was caused because America, at the time, was trading with Napoleonic France, and murdering thousands of Native Americans just so they could get a foothold in the potentially valuable farmlands of the Northwest, because the British didn't agree with this behaviour we tried to stop it, causing the Americans to declare war.
The national anthem “The Star-Spangled banner” was actually a poem written about the attack on Baltimore, when Francis Scott Key saw the American flag waving above Fort McHenry. It was set to the music from an old English drinking song called “The Anacreonic Song”. The fact that this song was made the American national anthem in 1931 shows that it is the Americans who never quite got over the war of 1812, and not the British, who seem know very little about this period in their history.

Number 37 – They polluted sincere, freethinking discourse with sarcasm, irony, and other forms of pernicious wit

So we “polluted sincere, freethinking discourse”, this is blatantly not true, I know lots of Americans who are just as witty as the British, because they understand sarcasm and irony. Most American comedians use this form of wit to shut up drunk and unfunny hecklers. Obviously only intelligent people will understand the complexities of this particular form of wit, I'm sorry to inform the readers of this blog Mr. Grasse is not as intelligent or witty as he likes to think, maybe he is one of the drunk, unfunny hecklers that frequently get put down by comedians the word over.

Number 36 – They befouled the world's stages with incomprehensible dramas

Shakespeare is, according to Mr Grasse “way overrated”, if that were so then people would not queue up to see the latest adaptations, whether they be on film or on stage.
Apparently , according to Mr Grasse “good stories should be like a gangster movie: accessible, excessively violent, and easy to understand”. I suggest you take a look at “O” the 2001 movie by Tim Blake Nelson, or Al Pacino's 1996 “Looking For Richard”, or even “Prospero's Books” Peter Greenaway's 1991 movie, all of which contain violence and nudity, and are easy to understand (Even for Mr Grasse's limited intellect), they are, surprisingly, all adaptations of Shakespeare plays.