Dear Mr. Kuntzman,

As a fellow landsman and resident of the NYC Metro Area who voted for the re-election of George W Bush and who would have walked barefoot over broken glass in order to do so, let me advise you that Canada is only a mere 6 hour drive to the North. There you can revel in your cowardice, sanctimony and immorality to your heart's content.

Paraphrasing Horace Greeley, 'Go North, young man!'

Gee, I wonder why states in which few consider marriage important, also have fewer divorces?

Bart:

Thany you, but we already have more than enough craft fairs and bluegrass festivals. You made him, you keep him.

One does begin to wonder when the Democratic party---and those purporting to support it---will discover that insane hysteria mixed with an unhealty dose of narcissism expressed and a rhetorical tone peppered with toxic levels of profanity, vileness, vulgarity, condescension and hatred for one's country and those who respect it are a lethal combination for any political party that wishes (within a democratic framework) to attract voters.

Say it ain't so, but the fringe appears to have become the mainstream (or rather the mainstream seems to have been seduced by the easy virtues of the fringe).

God help them. God help us.

Any Kerry supporter who wants to know why their man lost, isn't getting a shred helpful insight from me -- let 'em howl in frustration.

His first reaction might be the most coherent, but his third is interesting.

Is that highest numbers of divorces per marriage, or just total number of divorces?

This is more the howl of the "trendie" than the rant of an intellectual in the true sense, and there are a lot more of the former in the Blue states than the latter. Instead of offering any rational thought or insight on issues or concepts, their main job in life is to flitter from new cause to new cause, never attempting to differentiate between something that's actually useful and what's merely something that they know about and the hicks in the sticks don't. It's how you can get your high praise of things like the the graphic Mapplethorp photo displays or for sticking a crucifix in a bottle of urine and calling it "art".

The fact that most people in the country don't want to be told by these people what is and what isn't important is also something the trendies will never see, because to do that would be to grant a rough parity to their critics' intellectual beliefs, and that would demolish much of their entire concept of themselves as being smarter than those they demean.

So when all those dullards go out and vote to re-elect Bush, people like Kuntzman aren't going to engage in any wrenching self-analysis, they're going to simply reaffirm their belief that only idiots (or the smart, but evil rich people who lead them) would vote for George W. Bush.

Peter Burnet - hey, I love your comments. You're right, his first reaction WAS the most coherent.

And Barry Meislin, well said!

How can anyone take them seriously?

His comments give some credence to Edwards two Americas; Kuntzmans' and those who voted for GW including those who wish they had the integrity to.

Other than that ... intersting last name.

I somehow would bet that states like Mass and New York (and Washington DC) also have the highest percentage of single mothers, unmarried parents, and teenaged pregnancies. California probably ranks right up there, too.

As has been pointed out, people can't get divorced unless they get married.

Never mind gay marriage -- here in California, we've got guys screaming at narrow-minded moralists for not letting them marry their horses and dogs.

You have not experienced surrealism until you have had a bestiality activist cop a Moral Superiority/Poor Poor Persecuted Me attitude on you. Nothing in South Park could top that.

We're actually trying to help gays copulate. As all married men know, nothing kills the urge to copulate like marriage. ;-)