So, how are your conservative friends taking it?

[Whateverist]

Then you can come stay here in DC with me :-) I'm fairly confident that DC will be well protected in such an event... or perhaps the epicenter... Gah... must not give in to paranoid anxiety! Anyway, I'd rather be here than back in Arkansas...

Thanks for the offer, but if it ever comes to that, I have other plans for where I want to go: http://atheistforums.org/thread-15680.html

If any part of the nation isn't going to turn against me, it's there.

Although, I do already have a contact or two in DC and my brother lives in southern VA (Newport News).

I live just across the bay from San Francisco in Berkeley. You could come to dinner a bunch and we can put you a up for a couple days if that helps. Eventually I hope to have a guest cottage in the garden but for the time being there is only a guest room. My wife Lia and I find house guests too inhibiting to our natural style of taking all our frustrations out on each other for a longer stay. (We don't either of us take it personally but this is the way we cope.) Plus we tend to parade around in a state of complete undress whenever the weather permits - so most of the time. And Lia works at odd hours, sometimes noisily in the studio. Do come visit though. We can behave ourselves for short bursts.