If Only Alec Baldwin Had Been Serious

Drudge is linking to a story in the IH-T about disaffecteds for whom the Bush victory on 11/2/04 was the last straw and who are actively making plans to emigrate to more liberal-friendly Canada, where many of them can pursue their agnostic or extramarital agendas unfettered and unencumbered by the emotional load of a diversity of social opinion weighing on their shoulders. They are in desperate search of a more uniformly accommodating politic, it seems...and they will surely find it on Front Street.

Alas, it looks as if only 18,000 will make it this year. qb wonders aloud, "how can I help you guys?"

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p. s. ...many of them, in a delicious twist of irony, from the Seattle area. What a hoot *that* is!

The Divine Conspiracy

Those of you needing something inspiring to read might want to pick up a copy of Dallas Willard's _The_Divine_Conspiracy_. Man, is it ever toothsome reading. You will never look at the Sermon on the Mount in quite the same way. qb is just about halfway through the book - it's not the easiest read in the world - and is mesmerized by the depth of it.

BTW, as qb learned this morning, if you pray for other people out of a desire to be their hero, it's time to check under the hood. God does not favor using His power to make US look good. About time qb learned that!

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The Right to Be An Ignoramus

Perhaps qb would think differently if he had lost someone in the World Trade Center or the Pentagon or in a field in Pennsylvania on 9/11...but the outrage over CU Professor Churchill's speaking engagement at some obscure college in the Rust Belt seems a bit over the top. In what way, precisely, does Churchill actually threaten us? One extremist after another keeps popping his head up and exposing himself for what he is, and qb is actually grateful for that.

The present political environment, in large measure created by President Bush's stubborn resolve, has been cathartic: the Michael Moores and the Howard Deans and the Terry McAuliffes and the Jacques Chiracs of the world have nowhere to run from their legacies and nowhere to hide from their true identities. Churchill is just another sorry example of the self-loathing left, and it comforts qb greatly to have such folks raise their heads instead of lurking down beneath somewhere, undetected and unexposed.