“Good evening. Here is the News for Parrots. No parrots were involved in an accident on the M1 today when a lorry carrying high-octane fuel was in collison with a bollard. That’s a bollard and not a parrot. A spokesman for parrots said he was glad no parrots were involved.”

(from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Episode 20)

I couldn’t help but remember the above scene (followed by news for several different animals, speaking of the absence of those animals from certain accidents) when I heard CNN talk about the Air France accident this week, mentioning that only two Americans were on board.

Two hundred plus people died, but fortunately, only two of them were Americans.

Also reminded me of this survey from Pew Research.

Let’s just hope that no Christians were involved in this bit of ethnocentrism.