Rick Segal, an American VC executive living in Canada, writes a pretty thoughful post about what it’s like to be an American these days. The comments, as you’d expect, get a little personal as the quality of the arguments declines. I actually met Rick once or twice when I was a vendor doing some work for his company; I was young (and a lowly vendor), so I was pretty intimidated by him. He was obviously very smart, but in situations like that you don’t pick up on the fact that someone’s thoughtful…he just seemed scary. So it was a bit of a shock to read a post like this.

Sometimes its hard to be an American