Bob jr, you probably don't understand that that's an offensive remark. Forgive ya this time but next time I'm strappin on the snowshoes, pounding some pemmican and back bacon into the pack, mending my tumpline and coming after you. With a sawed-off eight-gauge tiple.

Yeah, the folks you mentioned are all in California, though I'm not sure where Cohens spent most of his time.

Its been pointed out that despite the incessant whining from the corporate elite and other rightwingers about an alleged brain-drain from Canada to the States, actually there's a pretty stable tradition of left-wing American immigration to Canada, (the Vietnam war era is a major example of this trend, but neither the beginning nor end of it) and right-wing Canadians going to the States. So we have Jane Jacobs living here, and you have David Frum. Lucky you.

It's a free world, but if people choose to pursue their muse down in the bright lights of LA, that's at the expense of some of that Canadian style. It ain't re-motely what we're talking about here.

Because lots of us don't want to go do that stateside thing, because we have a strong sense of place. Some Americans, frankly, are too thick to recognize this, and think everybody naturally wants to live in the States.

Tain't so brother.

Willie-O