Liberal Talk Radio

Seattle PI Columnist weighs in on the Eastern Washington secessionists, which I discussed last week.

The bottom line? East and West give and take more than either of us want to admit.

Speaking of the death of states as we know them, I finally finished Robert Kaplan’s An Empire Wilderness. A great book, and I highly recommend it. He travels the American West and comes to the conclusion that the next (and final) chapter of the American Empire will involve the Federal government being reduced to little more than the military, with the wealthy the population balkanized into self-sufficient, globally-connected city states and the poor fighting it out in rural areas and depressed urban ghettoes.

When I get home I’ll supply you with a quote of his about the Pacific Northwest that I found really beautiful.