I've only known three people in my life who have migraines.
A migraine is not simply a very severe headache, as many people assume. It's a very severe headache accompanied by auditory or visual hallucinations: "floaters".
A friend of mine used to get migraines. He described "dancing triangle shapes" that appeared at his visual horizon and slowly approached him. When they reached close enough to fill his whole visual field, he would have to lie down in a dark room for four to eight hours while the headache progressed. His migraines got more severe as he and his wife of twenty years had a difficult divorce. He died shortly afterward of an aneurysm.
My sister-in-law has migraines, which were the initial presentation of her very serious blood disease.
One summer I had a job at a national lab doing computations. My boss got migraines. As far as I know, she's still fine.
Anyway, here's an utterly batshit theory about migraines. Perhaps it will help somebody.
Jonah Goldberg's online article about Canada provides useful facts for debating Canadians. In particular:
Canada was once willing to back up its moral ambitions with force of arms; today it's ranked 37th on the list of peacekeepers.
This would be a useful factoid to shoot back at the regular Canadian claim of significant contributions to international peacekeeping. Would be, if only there were a reference somewhere. 37th in what, anyway? In popularity? In troop commitments? In payments made?
And Jonah's showing some chutzpah in criticizing the army which has the best snipers in the world.
I'll have to get my hands on NRODT to see what else he says.