We a bunch of Dylan fans or what?

You know, I happen to love the USA (don't tell Dickey). I hate Washington and its politics with something akin to a passion, but I feel like that about Ottawa, too. The American people are so much like Canucks that after two beers you can't really tell them apart. (Well, Canadians are better looking, but the US has more basketball teams.) The people I met in my years there were wonderful. I had the privilege of travelling all over the place in the US and I made some friends I have to this day. A world without America is one of those execrcises in rewriting history that I have never liked, and it ranks right up there with, "If the dinosaurs had survived, what would . . .?" Fact is, they didn't. The world we have is right now the ONLY one we have. People all over it are gonna have to learn to get along. We owe the US a great deal, and when its political leadership is pissing in the swimming pool, it's very easy to use the term American when what we mean is Government. I have no wish to insult Americans because of their idiot President or dictatorial foreign policies. Ther are too many good folks out there who feel much the same. In the United States.

As heric pointed out, "The Times They Are A Changin'", and I think my neighbours to the south are mostly happy about that. I know I am.