As the token Canadian in this group (gee, now I know how Jimmy Carl Black of The Mothers of Invention must have felt), I offer my sympathies to all of you who must be so distressed by the direction Dubya has taken your country. There's no denying it now -- The USA has become a rogue state... May thi...

Mushi-mushi Ryland, you groovy gaijin. Good idea, this forum. Did you get to Hong Kong yet? Not the best time to be there now, with the scare over Severe Acute Respitory Disorder. Of which I wonder: what's with the "severe?" Isn't acute bad enough already? It's like saying Very Urgent. Have a good o...