If the corporate media doesn’t eventually STFU (that link’s NSFW, BTW) about John McCain’s pick for VP, and if enough Americans once again line up like lemmings to vote for the person with whom they’d be most comfortable having a barbeque at the trailer park, some of us may want to be seeking citizenship elsewhere. Fortunately, there are lots of resources on the web. Even a fluff site like AskMen.com offers up a piece called Fine Living Top 10: Dual-Citizenship Countries. Apparently though, things aren’t as simple as the old Jus soli and Jus sanguinis. For instance, head over to extrapassport.com, where they advise: “Before you PAY anybody to provide you with a new citizenship, check if the procedure described by your provider is listed in our Handbook”. Which ironically costs USD $63.99. But wait, they have better deals; for a mere USD24.95 you can download the Estonia Residency & Citizenship Handbook. Barring a major Russian offensive, Estonia is apparently shaping up to be quite a nice new member of the EU. If you don’t feel like giving your credit card number to strange web sites that probably operate on former U.K. gunnery posts in the Atlantic, check out MultipleCitizenship.com’s Citizenship Laws of the World, which was prepared by the US government Office of Personnel Management in 2001, which I guess was the last time a bunch of us were suddenly thinking of renouncing our citizenship. Lastly, if you’re hemmorrhaging cash, why not buy an island ? As an example, this little baby (8 acres) is only CAD $250,000…