This board is really striking.

Close to half the posts - and all of the most popular-voted posts - are hurling insults and mockery and pointed judgment at Americans civilians in Houston, picking on their alleged foolishness and wrongheaded views on this, that and the next thing.

Compare that to the posts on past boards about wildfires in British Columbia or ice storms in Quebec, where more than 90 percent of the posts were respectful and sombre, and the less than ten percent that were inflammatory were targeting government and government parties, NOT the layperson citizens living there.

In summary, too many Canadians who are actually parochial, tribalistic bigots somehow nonetheless manage to see themselves as sophisticated and worldly.   

It really is an amazing phenomenon, and does not speak well of Canada.