[Publius]

Ah. So that's why Seattle's such a little suck pot.

You need to develop a sense of intellectual challenge.

I lived here from 1971-74, 1989-93, and 1997-present. I wouldn't live anywhere else.

The people who make this a miniature Canada are my friends and neighbors, and I don't have a problem with them. I enjoy their liberal foibles, and I especially enjoy pricking their little balloons. All it takes is a smidgeon of intellectual rigor and an understanding of the Constitution -- and pop! goes their balloon. It's so easy and so much fun.

Despite the problems pointed out most eloquently by the author of this article, if a plebiscite were held in Western Washington about seceding from the US to become a Canadian province, it would narrowly win.

[caisson71]

"Understanding of the Constitution" has new meaning to me these days. If you understand and argue the Constitution, which version are you using? You certainly couldn't carry on an "intellectual" ballon popping argument on our Constitution vs. socialism based on the SCOTUS latest version. You are right about Western Wash and Canada however.

[vanmorrison]

Why on earth would you laugh away at the mess that these ex-pat Canucks have made of Western Washington? Lets all have a real good laugh at the "foibles" of the leftist-liberal Canuck Eurocrats that have made the Seattle area just like every other crappy socialist cesspool; like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

Har-de-har-har.

[americanSoul]

The people who make this a miniature Canada are my friends and neighbors

Are these the same that voted for having a giant statue of Lenin put up in the city?