Superstition has played too great a role in policy.

Exhibit B:

Yes, I forgot about that. I learned about that from Real Housewives of Vancouver when one of the broads got hers done at home by her fucking dentist. And yes, she got a janky result. I mean, like even your Gynecologist can do it if he/she takes some fucking weekend seminar. Why would you want that when there are…

I think your points are valid. Lester B. Pearson earned tremendous respect — and a Nobel Peace Prize — for resolving the Suez Crisis but, ironically, it’s only Trudeau père who could match, or possibly even outmatch, Justin Trudeau, charisma-wise.

That’s what I meant but you put it better (and the sequence was indeed funny).

Canada literally got EVERYTHING we wanted; a non-contested gentle launching from the mother ship, while retaining all the benefits of membership in the empire. It didn’t seem that big of a deal when I was doing a history major with an American Revolutionary period concentration, but the differences are so stark these…

But in Canada politicians aren’t treated like rock stars (and they shouldn’t be!) They’re human beings with a job to do. I don’t like this turn towards celebrity worship of our politicians. It’s un-Canadian and also, it takes things out of perspective.

I grew up in here in the States in the 70s when his father was PM, and my recollection is that he also was very well-known here at that time. But I couldn’t tell you the name of any other Canadian PM aside from Harper, and that’s only because a Canadian fb friend posted quite a bit about the campaign that led to…

John Oliver made fun of him for being called emotionally intelligent in response to people saying he’s not as intellectually brilliant as his father. But emotional intelligence IS a good thing. And “not as intellectually brilliant as Pierre Elliot Trudeau” is not the same thing as dumb.

I think that lady is thinking - “i do not want all this brouhaha when I am eating my delicious salad, sir”.

Honestly if Trump wins, I can’t wait to see politics in Canada.

“We need to build a wall! We WILL build a wall and we’ll make America pay for it. The Americans, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending their trans and their gay folks. They’re sending their poor and minorities. It’s a Yuuuugggeee…

Plus he’s gay as a French horn, so it’s simultaneously very amusing and very frustrating that he’s a mostly party-line republican.

Thank you for giving me something to consume the entirety of my day. His unfavorables really are staggering.

I’m still a bit bleary-eyed this morning and first read it in the article as Booty McBooterson.

In other news. The ship called... Uhm... formerly known as Boaty, has shipped to...

Yesterday a Trump supporter ran up to me and touched me on the arm, shouted: “ha-ha! Tag! You got Megyn Smelly’s germs!” then ran off. Sometimes I just hate recess.

Let’s not forget the text is all justified in the New Yorker, so spacing between words is all messed up for the sake of even columns and is ugly af.

Oh man, I envy you. I can’t read when i’m stoned, it would be such a great way to get through some shit I feel I ought to read but don’t really want to.

I can never see Stephen Toblowsky without automatically thinking: “Hello, my name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify me.”