I'm beginning to think that maybe the British authorities should test their country's drinking water for lead content.
Posted at 2005-11-20 08:58:31 [PermaLink]There is nothing I find more annoying than Europeans who write these trite articles about how charming Canada is. Well actually that's not true. American liberals are often even worse.
When people have already decided you're the "good example" and the "good America" nothing can stop them from drawing that conclusion, not even facts.
"Canadians are engaged in their politics in way that Americans aren't, and they read obsessively." I don't mean to be rude to Canadians, but I really find it hard to believe that Canada (or any other country) is chock full o' bibliophiles and people who follow politics closely. It's like the author only talked to those Canadians who read blogs everyday.
Posted at 2005-11-20 12:20:55 [PermaLink]PC: The author is an author on a book tour--which may explain the people he meets.
J.J.: The author thought West Point (viewed from the train from NY to TO) looked like a prison.
markc
Well, it's a chance to be sneering at Americans and condescending towards Canadians at the same time, so it's a slam dunk twofer. You get to diss both Anglo nations in North America. After all, we deserve it for leaving Europe. Although those politically active bibliophiles up north aren't as bad as we snake handling, NASCAR watching rednecks because they're sorta trying to be European. And some of then do speak French, after a fashion.
My favorite article ever written about Canada is still the old Onion classic, "Perky Canada Has Own Government, Laws." Stereotypes every angry Canadian impression of American cluelessness.
Our country's great...it's the people that suck. ;)
Posted at 2005-11-20 19:41:23 [PermaLink]