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Phew - got that out of my system. What prompted that long, agonised scream? This article in the NYT. Once again, the morons seem to be winning and people who actually know things are losing. Fuck me! Where do these idiots come from? Oh - wait - in Jim (I Can't Act, But, Wanna See Me Wrap Tape Around My Head?) Carrey's case I actually know! Canada! Crap. How sad is that? Luckily, I have no idea where his bimbo wife (oops - "companion" (I thought that was the new term for "pet", but what do I know?)) comes from. But, golly, if they say vaccines are bad for your kids, they must be, right? Suuuuuuurrrrrrre.

Every year, nearly 200,000 people die of measles alone among the vaccine-preventable diseases. Wanna know where 95% of those people live? Developing countries where people have no access to vaccines. Wanna know how old the majority of those dead people are? Less than 5 years old.

Go, Jim and Jenny! You're so incredible (really!). Golly, you could hook up with Peter Duesberg and Thabo Mbeki and slaughter millions! Think of it!

As everyone knows by now, one of the wonderful things about the Web and blogging is that, unlike writers for conventional (and necessary) media, bloggers can say pretty much whatever they want. We're not obliged to pacify editors, owners, or advertisers. So, the following...

Here in the Great White North, a cretin is currently Prime Minister. Now, everybody knows this, including even writers for The National Post (Canada's paper of the neo-conservative right). Yes, even they are calling, in polite terms, Stephen "The Smirk That Would Be King" Harper a cretin. They're kind of forced to, really. After all, anyone who can't figure out 34% < 50% < 50%+ has to be stupid, right? And unfit to govern, right? Right. It must be driving them mad.

I know - we've been here before. Kind of like the cretins running the McBush campaign. Are people really still paying attention to the colour of someone's skin?!? Or is the McBush campaign just as dumb as it seems? As devoid of actual intellectual input? As seriously lacking in ideas that might actually make people's lives better? That might pull America out of the deep, deep shit-hole it's in thanks to eight years of this kind of thinking? These people are the creepiest of the creepy, the dumbest of the dumb, the worst that humanity has to offer.

Ah, another sunny weekend. Of course, the one in this photo took place about a year ago, but....this weekend was sunny, too! The problem was, instead of wandering the streets looking for photos, I rode my bike across town to exercise my civic duty. Yep. it was time for the Party of my choice to choose its mayoral candidate for fall's civic election, so I went to mark my ballot for the guy I favour. The ride to the polling place was a piece of cake - all downhill. You know what that means for the homeward ride. Heck of a nice day for it, though.

And, a sad update. Yep, Kansas is at it again. The home of cretinous creationism, unintelligent design, and, well, the winner-take-all prize winners in the "World's Largest Concentration of Stupid" prize, not content with - in their Christian zeal - shooting a doctor practicing legal (that's L-E-G-A-L, which means the law says it's O.K., for those Kansans dropping by) abortion, now they're invoking a 19th century law right here in the 21st century, trying to stop the doc. Kansas - on the cutting edge. Fer shure.

Talk about a high embarrassment threshold! Wowee!

Lordy, I hope the saying, "Only the good die young" isn't true. The signs, I have to admit, aren't looking good. How old is Henry Kissinger? How old was Augusto Pinochet when he died? Dick Cheney seems to be hanging in pretty nicely. Nevertheless, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Tony Clement - our very own Health Mangler - will be the exception. Yep, science isn't good enough for him; the law isn't good enough for him - nope. Only God's will that these hideous addicts burn in hell is good enough for a staunch representative of the Refor...er....Canadian Allian.....er, um.......Cons.....no, um, er, um.......Christian Cretin Party.

On the other hand, his continued existence, and that of his compatriots in cretinism, is at least proof of the non-existence of god. Any god worth his/her/its salt would have "called" these pinheads "home" a long, long time ago.

The key word here is "Notice". Now, it's easy to poke fun at American politics - people are going without proper medical care and the big news there is whether or not the Democrats' presidential candidates are sufficiently "in touch" with their religion. What I can't figure out is why no one's asked them how they feel about Santa Claus. At least he delivers!

But, up here in the Great White North, things are just as bad. Following the Bushian example, our own Smirkin' Steve is doing his damnedest to dodge questions of human rights. Are all conservatives moral cretins? Or is it just these guys?

Which is, of course, what Dumbya said to America's poor today. Well, this and, basically, "Fuck you. The health insurance industry'll pay me more in the first year of my post-presidency coffer-refilling than all of you losers could ever dream of scraping together in your combined lifetimes. Take your sickly little runts and drown 'em, for all I care."

If you get the feeling that I hate this creep with a passion, well, you're right. The fact that he's going to get away with it all just sends me up the wall.