Well, the European Commission completed an investigation recently and realized that America's stance against online gambling is, in fact, contradictory to WTO rules.

In other blockbuster findings, the Commission was astounded to find out that sub-prime mortgages are bad investments and that it just might someday be possible for a black man to be elected President of the United States.

Wow. How much did they pay for this investigation? Hopefully not a lot, because they could have found most of this out simply through browsing my archives.

Anyway, this is obviously the EU's polite way of reminding the incoming Obama Administration that there are some easy ways for America to make friends with the international community.

It'll be interesting to see if this topic gets raised during Obama's first official trip to Europe as prez.