Cajuns were Acadians, chucked out of the Maritimes for refusing to swear allegiance to the English crown. (And for being Catholic.) (And being friends with the Indians.)

Nowadays, we would say they'd been ethnically cleansed.

I don't think we qualify for citizenship anywhere else. Even S. is second-generation Irish, and Ireland isn't exactly the most economical place to move anyway. Although I would LOVE it.

It's sad that going off the grid would mean no internet, because that's really the one thing I would miss.

I see your point of view, but given Romney's extreme positions in these primary months, I am not sure he is that different from Santorum at this point. I'm serious.

Could not disagree more. Santorum is a True Believer and Romney is a pragmatist. Most of the profiles I've read on Romney have been extremely interesting because they talk about his case study perspective which is what you see in how he governed Massachusetts.

Santorum is evil.

I see your point of view, but given Romney's extreme positions in these primary months, I am not sure he is that different from Santorum at this point. I'm serious.

I think the main difference is that Santorum means it.

My mother was just telling me about a bunch of married engineers in our family, msbelle, but I don't know what their surnames are. I don't know for sure about Campbells. Why?

Okay, I now have a portfolio. Every picture of a kid I've drawn over the past year is included. I've drawn relatively few women, so all of them not in sexytimes are in there, and some diverse body types in there too. Not that there's a huge amount of that coming from TV fanart. But I did what I could.

Of course if Romney gets us into a nuclear war, whether he means or not won't be important. And the thing is people usually govern the same or to the right as where they run. I guess the thing is to make sure than whoever is the Republican nominee to make sure they don't become President.

we have a mine in Jamaica. We have a Campbell in my office.

None of my engineer relatives, as far as I know, live in Ja. They're all Americans. And I checked my most recent family trees for Campbell, and I think he's dead.

Was he born in Canada?

Yes, he was born and grew up in Toronto. My grandfather was working for the Canadian branch of his company.

This really is a terrifying election. I don't understand what the Republicans are thinking AT ALL. I mean, I didn't like Reagan, I didn't like Bush Sr, but I understood how one could honestly believe they'd be good for the country. But what's happening now? I just don't get it.