hey, go election!
i must say, this is the best possible outcome i could have imagined. no conservative government, but the liberals have lost enough seats to wake them up. and, of course, i'm very happy with how the NDP did, very good numbers - despite the fact that they didn't get as much of the GTA as they had hoped.
i hope this minority does as well as w.l.m. king's, or pearson and trudeau's did. i think it'll make things interesting.
also: in case you didn't know, you don't have to pay postage to send a letter to your MP, MPP, premier, or PM. so i've decided that any time something pisses me off, i'm telling jean augustine about it. hell, i'll tell mr. martin about it. i still feel as if *i personally* made a difference in getting him to meet with his holiness the dalai lama.
on a lighter note:
Jon Stewart, host of the Daily Show (required view, Monday through Thursday nights, 11 PM ET, Comedy Central) did an hour on Larry King last week. The spiritual highlight:
KING: What do you think about religion in politics?
STEWART: I think it should be there, but more. It's just not there enough.
KING: More?
STEWART: Yes. I feel like, you know, I feel like the best thing to do is to convince the country that our God is the one true God and that others are less.
KING: American God, you mean?
STEWART: Yes. The one that blesses us for our manifestness.
KING: He doesn't bless England.
STEWART: No. No. He doesn't care for them. He feels that they're pasty.
KING: Pasty?
STEWART: Pasty and he doesn't care for the food.
KING: But Canada.
STEWART: Happy to have them in the attic, but not so crazy about them in general.
KING: He's a judgmental God.
STEWART: Very angry. Loves the Americans. Very big. Wants us to have bigger cars. Wants us to have bigger cars and as a little goof on us has only made a finite supply of oil. It's very--he's very funny. He's a trickster. Here's another little joke he did. He promised three different religions they were the chosen ones, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and then, funny, follow me, he put their holiest sites all in the same place. And then he backed away and he just wants to see who wants it more. That's what this is about. This is God going, hey, show me something, people.
KING: You kind of like him. You kind of like playing.
STEWART: I enjoy the mischief that he's making.