What's a Dejected Democrat to do?

By Logan Orlando; Julie Rawe

APOLOGIZE GLOBALLY

www.sorryeverybody.com

This pro bono site collects and posts thousands of portraits of pouting and wincing Americans clutching handwritten apologies to the rest of the world for re-electing Bush. But don't get carried away. Photos deemed "too hateful or hostile" won't make the cut.

HEAD FOR THE MOUNTIES

www.cic.gc.ca/english/

Americans interested in emigrating to Canada log on here. In a typical day, 20,000 U.S. citizens visit the site. After the election, that number jumped to 115,016, an all-time record.

FIGHT FOR REDISTRICTING

www.bluestater.net

Here Democrats can find a map of North America from their perspective: Kerry's coastal voters join "the United States of Canada," as Bush's red block becomes "Jesusland." The graphic is plastered on everything from lunch boxes to doggie T shirts at www.cafepress.com

MARRY YOUR WAY OUT

www.marryanamerican.ca

Started by our neighbors to the north, this satirical site asks foreigners to "open your heart, and your home" to political refugees from the U.S. Some 5,000 people from around the globe have taken the pledge.

CASK AN ADVICE COLUMNIST

www.democraticunderground.com

A Dear Abby for Dems, this site's Auntie Pinko answers woeful letters with hope: "Liberals are now (more or less) where the ultraconservative wing of the G.O.P. was back when Mr. Goldwater was defeated in 1964."