Jack, I am not willing to drive to Cincinnati for a meal! :-) Matter of fact, I am going to stay north of that border until there is "regime change" in the USA, I think. I consider that country more dangerous with every passing day. I kid you not. And not because of muslim terrorists, either...

Where exactly are you these days?

It has never ceased to amaze me how Americans can say they have the "greatest country in the world", but I'm sure a lot of Germans said that too about the Reich, between 1933 and 1944 or thereabouts. It's typical of the populations of great powers. The British believed for hundreds of years that they were living in the greatest society and the greatest democracy of all time.

Canada is a modest country, a very good one in many ways, and modesty is a virtue worth cultivating, since it tends to promote tolerance and the willingness to live and let live.