O Canada.

Just finished a lovely week long visit to British Columbia.  It’s always nice to visit this beautiful country, but unusually painful just now.  Canadian attitudes toward Americans have always been this uneasy mixture of envy and condescension.  Now that the US is struggling, the envy is gone. Now we’re simply their goober southern neighbors with a bad attitude and way too much debt.

Frankly, it’s hard to blame them, though a healthy fraction of their current prosperity comes from our insatiable appetite for their oil.  And when oil prices go in the tank, they’ll be joining us.  And you’ll be able to see the carnage from tar sands exploitation in northern Alberta from space…