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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Dude, you couldn’t post another open thread on the front page? This is your own freakin’ blog. Come on!
On another note, how was DL this week? I’m sure CabinGirl was sorely disappointed by my no-show… 😛
As a matter of fact, I was crushed. Absolutely crushed.
Crushed like ice in a glass.
I was just looking at a photo of you shopping in Baltimore in my cell phone.
Over the past few years (pretty much since November ’04), the spouse and I have had a running joke about moving to Canada.
Tonight, we were watching the Sharks game and they had a feature on one of the players who just bought some land up in British Columbia.
“Sure you don’t want to move to BC?” I jokingly asked him.
For the first time ever, he responded, “Well, Victoria wouldn’t be so bad…”
I know he fell in love with the city in our brief visit there this summer…but could it be that even he is having fears about our home country? Let’s hope that after 11/7, we can return to the idea just being a pipe dream and not a necessity…
Victoria is a beautiful place and I too would love to live there if I were going to live anywhere in Canada. (Don’t think the thought hasn’t crossed my mind. In fact our family’s running joke is that we are trying to get our daughter to meet a nice Canadian boy, get married to him, and then have her sponsor us into the country.) Unfortunately, like any city on the West Coast it’s muckin’ expensive, and has gotten more so since the Canadian dollar has risen vis-a-vis the US dollar. (Less expensive than the Bay Area, but what isn’t?)
You could probably get something cheaper someplace like Port Alberni or Campbell River if there were any jobs there. 🙂
On the other hand, about five seconds of Googling indicates that the median price of a three-bedroom house in Nanaimo is C$139,000 . . . and there are ferries to Vancouver, which has software jobs . . .
hey dotter dear, any luck meeting that nice Canadian boy yet?
Great minds work alike: I keep telling my sons that’s it’s just as easy to fall in love with a Canadian as an American. Not only because of the elections, but because of the long-term trend for the deficit, global warming, “the arc of empires,” etc.
Probably would have left in 2004 if not for Mrs. K.P. I still threaten Catnip once in a while that I may show up on her doorstep one night (bearing cheesecake, of course!)
If the results of 11/7 don’t pass the smell test, we may need to set up a BMT emigration discussion group.
a nice Canadian boy. It has worked out very well so far. I highly recommend it.
I’ve launched my last fundraising effort for Mike Callaghan. A happy story fundraiser .
Do you know what would be a really happy story? Replacing a Rubber Stamp, Torture Supporting, Bush Loving, Corruption Enabling Republican like Shelley Moore Capito with a passionate, former federal prosecutor like Mike Callaghan. This is my last pitch for funds. This is a race where every dollar can make a difference.
Won’t you help?