You know, you have a real fondness for painting people with a broad brush. Maybe it’s because it’s easier for you to attack them. Poking pins into voodoo dolls of your own creation is a lot easier I suppose. Assuming that my love of being American is any less than yours is stepping over a boundary in my book. You keep doing that and you are seriously going to piss me off.

Yes Sperwer, I’m hard wired and predictable just like that! However, it’s just too bad not everybody fits into your neat linear world, least of all me.

Hey, all that was three months ago. Let it go.

Hey, that’s your opinion. It had its co-supporters also, if you don’t remember.

Ah, the typical Korean gambit: forget about whether it’s tight, just count up how many people subscribe.

Annexation of Korea by Japan happened over a hundred years ago. So I thought I could talk in terms of using possessive forms without having the McCarthy Committee of UnAmerica Activites monitor, and misunderstand, my comments.

You are clearly more interested in yourself than you are in me. I merely thought you’d remember because we had a discussion about Northern Italy, a subject you knew more about…

I don’t think China is the best example of energy conservation. While the families might be saving on small things, the big things are being ignored.

That’s why I limited my praise to Chinese households. Chinese buildings are inefficient to heat because of a lack of insulation.

Yet here we are talking about ramping up productions, claim more and more made in China consumption is good, and we encourage people to have more and more kids, living in monster houses in the suburbia.

Maybe Canada is encouraging its families to have more kids, but the US is not. I just read a story yesterday about how the sprawling suburban ideal established in the post-WWII era is giving way to densely populated areas with housing and shopping located in the same neighborhood. One can see this happening in the gentrification of Arlington, VA, just outside DC, and some southside Chicago neighborhoods. It’s not only young people but families who are forsaking large homes and long commutes for the convenience of urban living. The article mentioned that some McMansions in far-flung suburbs are becoming multi-family rentals with ten people in one home.