On my daily round of online newspapers, I check the Croatian ones last. “Let’s see what the idiots have to say,” I sigh to myself as I grasp my laptop for comfort. “What the heck,” I sometimes add a few soothing words, “I happen to live here!” And I only look for things that may impinge on my life in the country, such as the news that the income tax law may be changed soon. Yesterday I read that the top tier of forty percent may be dropped. Anyhow, it is amazing to compare the best newspapers Croatia has to offer and the international newspapers I read in earnest. The former seem to be addressing toddlers rather than grownups. When the Croatian inferiority complex is added to the picture, it is simply awful. There is much boasting or lamenting about nothing worth talking about. Besides, the titles are all over the place, and they rarely match the articles. The editors have not yet mastered the bylines, either. And the bulk of the articles are outright atrocious. It appears that there are no more than a handful of journalists who know their trade left in the country. To my surprise, there is not a single Croatian newspaper that does not fit this loathsome picture. The only thing that can be said in defense of the newspapers is that they match the Croatian politics pretty well. Although some of the leading politicians are simply unmatchable in idiocy, this is where there are idiots galore. A match made in heaven, it appears.