Canadiana, Con't.

The American Thinker, which is a very fine web journal we should really link to, has a little editorial entitled The Nigeria of the North?, noting how the Liberal Party is now choosing to blame its financial scandals on a vast American business conglomerate, in this case Hewlett-Packard. Well, no bloody surprise there. But given that Carly Fiorina is probably the most visible female corporate executives, it seems only right that we should accuse the Canadian government of sexism. Shocking, really, to see that sort of sexist hate emanating from the frozen north.

And all the while Paul Martin desperately tries to stave off electoral doom, now warning that the Tories would be bad sports who would risk "electoral backlash" if they teamed up with the independence-minded Parti Quebecois in provincial elections. Ho-hum. The interesting part of the story, not mentioned in the headline of course, is that "a key Liberal political lieutenant admitted it would be crazy to head into an election right now given anger in Quebec at the federal sponsorship scandal."

Why worry about Canadian politics? Well, they're our neighbors. And it's fascinating stuff! The stakes are so small...unless you're getting a government public relations contract, that is!