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Sunday, July 31, 2005

It’s not that I’m busy...

...I just gave up giving a shit for a few weeks. In the meantime, here’s some sound bites.

Rick Santorum: OK, now we know this is just another psychotic asshole on a book tour.

Mitt, I love you: comedy lives. All we need now is for someone to pants this guy and see if he wears his holy undershorts!

Looking for a show of hands: how many people really expected Dubya to nominate a progressive to the Supreme Court? The words were hardly out of the Shrub’s mouth when several progressive organisations had their hands moving towards my pockets. Let’s just wait up, Pilgrims, and see how Roberts plays out. I’m more interested in what will happen when they carry Rehnquist out of the court feet first. Save a little energy for that one, eh?

Speaking as someone with relatives in the UK, I was interested to note that the American media weren’t able to drop the hand-wringing for five minutes and actually publish casualty lists. Thank you, BBC; thank you, Guardian. My relatives are safe.

On the same theme…what a revelation: the stiff upper lip is an act! Of course it’s an act: it always was. The point is how you choose to play the role. I’ll take the stiff upper lip over the American whine any day.

Still wondering why I’m back, after a week in rural Ontario. It was past wonderful to kayak on a 20 square mile lake, within 90 miles of Ottawa, with maybe 200 cottages on 100 miles of shoreline, and vast stretches where the loudest noise was one’s own paddle. It was superb to spend time with people who didn’t act like it was an imposition to be pleasant to one another, and to know one could buy decent beer off the rack.

Oh yeah…I kinda like looking up a flagpole and seeing the Maple leaf or the Red Ensign there: must be the tug of Empire lost.

Post-Jamboree note to the Boy Scouts. Maybe it’s time to drop the merit badge for homophobia and get back to basics?

2 Comments:

Blogger massmarrier said...

I can believe that opening paragraph. You seem all clogged.

So, you go to eh-Canada to tighten up? There's nothing like enjoying nature and your r(u)(oo)ts to bring out the cynic in you.

Why don't you paddle on town to the Bones and tell us about it?

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