Not that I'm taking too much of this kind of thing all that seriously, but there is a bit of a "canary down the mineshaft" aspect to this:

I don't give a @#$%.

Seriously. I don't. Nothing that happens here suprises me any more. I've largely insulated myself from actually having contact with this society. I have no job. I never directly come in contact with the government in any form. I'm well along my way of severing all ties with the US. My emotional ones were severed years ago. The physical ones aren't far behind.

Why?

Because all of this fritting over policy and politics is chasing after the wind. That's why. Ignore it. Ignore them. Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, for this is the Gift of the Lord. Consern yourself with you and yours. Enjoy your work. Enjoy your life. Because everything else is chasing after the wind.

There is no satisfaction to be had in fretting over the state of the US, or the latest assault on your independence. It is chasing after the wind.

Nate, the author of this rant, is hard to take seriously, but what third or fourth rate blogger isn't?  My first reaction to this kind of Napoleon Dynamite rhetoric is to chalk it all up to the fact that some people just can't handle not being able to brandish their weapons at the Krispy Kreme drive through window.  However, I'm not going to pretend that if we aren't already there, we're very close to being completely screwed as a nation.

So my question to you all is what has to happen before you will pack up your family and get out of Dodge?  And where would you go if you did?

My Mind is Clean