It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

Every single comedian in Canada is now living in the United States.

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.

Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.

Canadians are always asking the questions the rest of us are afraid to ask.

I guess what I'm looking for here is empathy. So you [Nicholas Kristof] have traveled all around the world, famously to the worse places of the world. Darfur. Mogadishu, Ouagadougou. Probably those places much more than Modesto or Lewiston.I never read a column by you that suggest the people in those places, who support dictators oftentimes, are racists or bad people. You would never write that about a poor person in the third world but you are implying that about your fellow Americans.