Ultimatum

Sometime during the '04 election campaign—probably when I was driving back with Jack from an Election Day spent campaigning in Hanover, NH—I announced that if Bush won the election, I would leave the States.

Fate, that slickest of gamblers, called my bluff.

Here we are again, but this time it's for real: If John McCain wins this election, I'm leaving the country. To the spoilers, the spoils.

Unpatriotic? No—surely there's a cure for stupidity, or a talisman against it, out there in the great wide world.