crossover from Gore’s selection of Lieberman to Canadian politics. Stockwell Day, the new leader of the largest right wing party here, is an Evangelical Christian. And he complains, loudly and often, that reporters ask him about that unfairly (invoking god in the context of politics is viewed with great suspicion here in Canada). Anyhow, the Globe published an interesting editorial about this today: God and politicians.
I guess Napster
was just the tip of the iceberg: Needlepoint pirates pillage on Net.
I don’t know if
it’s just me or what, but I seem to hear of or be in the midst of a ton of “small world” situations. But there was one just now that’s pretty weird. Every morning I listen to Daybreak on CBC radio. The regular host is on vacation this week, so a guy named Peter Downey is sitting in. The top story this morning is about a Montreal journalist named Katya who was injured in Lebanon earlier today. So Peter Downey intros the story – they called her for an interview – and it turns out he was her instructor at J-School last year at Concordia University.
I’m not 100%
sold on Joseph Lieberman in terms of his views on things – he’s a little loud with his moralizing, for one thing. But at the same time he seems like a reasonable guy who understands the difference between using one’s soapbox to encourage change and using one’s legislative influence to actually force marginally constitutional changes. Lieberman seems intelligent, and capable of making distinctions between shades of grey, which is a positive thing. My big fear is that the ticket is very much a policy wonk ticket – these guys are serious fellows, not a lot of star quality. Which frankly I prefer, but could hurt them in the election. But then again, I don’t have a vote.
BTW, the parade
today was spectacular. I met up with my friend Richard, who writes the nationally syndicated queer column Three Dollar Bill, his lovely parents and a couple other friends. The best part were the Gay Line Dancers of Montreal, who line danced their way down the parade route to Shania Twain. The PFLAG groups got me choked up a bit, though everyone was very happy. I honestly don’t know what it would be like to be gay, but then I know what my relationships with my parents are like and how important they are to me. That many people (fewer, I hope?) lose the love of parents over something like this boggles my mind – at once making me quite indignantly angry and choking me up to know that there are reasonable adults out there who can really love their kids unconditionally. Anyhow.
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