Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.

But Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did in a heartless and cruel way. And I think, personally, he should've been executed for that. He wasn't, but the idea that the President of the United States would be getting behind someone who murdered dogs?

Canada thinks we're married; we don't know it exists. Every time we tell Canada to knock it off, it just feeds the fire.

I try to tell the truth.

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.

I will avoid demonizing people who don't agree with me about this election.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.