Just venting.

It's fine if people wants to pay much less tax, have less government, and want an enormous military. It's a democracy after all. If the government required us to carry guns, close the borders, dissolve the unions, outlaw gay marriage, zero out inheritance taxes, require a particular religion reign everywhere, outlaw abortion and birth control, legislate global warming to be a liberal unfounded speculation - whatever gets passed into law I'll go along with.

If less government means no further concern with long-term, sciency, expensive issues like earthquake hazard mitigation, I'll be first in line to seek work with a tech firm or an oil company, or start a company.

But when people don't even know what path we're following, and think we're under seige from a tidal wave of liberalism, it's stunning, and I sort of lost it for a while.

I have to admit I found the PNW quake article unnecessarily apocalyptic in 4 or 5 places, although it is quite entertaining and well written.