Staying in Canada
Back when I worked at Ziff-Davis in Boston, a multimedia developer named David Drucker provided my first introduction to the Macintosh (an introduction I resisted, though his predictions that I would someday become a Mac-head ultimately proved true).
When Bush won re-election in 2004, Drucker and his wife did something many liberals talked about doing, but that few actually followed through on - they up and moved to Canada. Today, the LA Times has published a brief piece by Drucker on whether their commitment to Canada has changed now that Democrats are back: Dems in control? We’re still staying in Canada, wherein he marvels at the fact that Canada’s “conservative” prime minister Steven Harper recently referred to a new “holistic” approach to environmental policy. Imagine anyone from the Bush administration using the term “holistic” with anything but sarcasm.
We’ve come to the conclusion that the United States has drifted so far to the right that any self-respecting Canadian Conservative would be considered a raving liberal in Washington.
November 26th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
[...] It doesn’t surprise me how my little piece of humour seemed to inspire everything from more of the same (as above), an angry rant from South Dakota, some really great emails from old friends and complete strangers, mentions in some great blogs written by friends in San Francisco and Boston, and a few snarky comments. I was, however, surprised to see that for a short while, the ‘most emailed’ list to the right of the site’s page for a while looked like this: Most emailed? Gee… Look, Ma, I was a Meme! [...]
November 28th, 2006 at 9:35 am
I wonder how “conservative” Mr. Harper actually is.
I wonder if ‘a new “holistic” approach’ translates as “All your hole are belong to us”.
I wonder if Mr. Drucker has dialed 911 lately.
November 28th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
re: 911. Ha! Give me RCMP over
NYPD any day!
December 4th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
donncha,
Except I don’t assume that two different ways of creating “a piece of paper the government issues itself before burglarizing your home” (a search warrant in the U.S., or “federal policy” in Canada) are our only two choices.
In any case, be careful what you wish for — you might get it.