Austin Bay goads me into losing my blogospheric virginity. It was over in minutes, but the audience made me nervous. -snip- 8. Well, since you asked, Austin… First, it’s true that the Central and Eastern European nations are markedly more America-friendly than the western ones. However, their long-term prognosis is not significantly different: they face the same deathbed demographics — right now, the only European country breeding at replacement rate is Muslim Albania. Declining population isn’t necessarily a problem — my own New Hampshire town, for example, survived a 130-year population decline from 1820 to 1950, caused by the opening...