It's okay that you're not up to correcting a Texan you say is schooling me on where the money comes from to pay for Canada's amenities. It is germane because you endorsed pooch's silly notions. You know better.

As for Tea Party, NYT and shootings, they have a gnat's eyelash of influence on America's current tragic travails, and I won't be going there today. Less said about their crazy aberration the better.