I agree completely. Can you imagine American bloggers commenting on Canadian affairs or even arguing for the country's break-up?

Bloggers? The world trembles before their power...

You don't fool me. They are trembling at the name Judd at the Times these days.

Peter: It's just that all Americans are obsessed with Canadian politics and culture. We're particularly envious that your Prime Minister has time to draw a nationally syndicated comic strip.

What's Canada?

What's Canada?

Minnesota before Pawlenty, according to the Star-Tribune.

Mmmm. One of the many, many things I treasure about this site is waking each morning and knowing the odds are good Orrin will post about some inanity up here. Raoul will thunder in fulminating about our dangerous perfidy (I do worry so about his heart), Genecis will say we are tanking fast and good riddance, and Sandy will call yet again for the conquest of Alberta. Then David will round it all out by assuring me no American ever even thinks about us or cares a whit about what goes on here.

I agree with his objection, but Mr. Styx seems unaware that the Sun is a conservative tabloid that has been taking a stridently pro-American, anti-Ottawa line since the war on terror began. He comes across a little like some French intellectual sputtering angrily about the cowboy unilateralism of the Boston Globe.

Uh oh. My big, big mistake. It's the Star. Go Nicholas, go.

Any compliments from El Gran Blanco Mexico del Norte are accepted. And how is the imperial project to annex the Cayman Islands and other bits of the Carribean proceeding? (I hear Haiti is always looking for new management, and they too sort of speak a kind of French. Maybe Chretien can become Viceroy there...)