Recession bingo!

First off, Novak Djokovic was felled from the Australian open due to heat stroke.

There are some problems where, even though I feel bad for someone, I am strangely envious of them as well.

Anyways.

Have you heard the radio commercials where two women talk about the coalition possibly shooting down today's budget? I wonder how those ads are received by demographic. Personally I find many Conservative ads are starting to sound more and more like propagandized state messages, but I can see how my relative liberal bias' might incline me to that.

I suppose it's the premise that negative advertising works at all that bothers me. One would think we'd place a priority on understanding how our country is run, but the whole pre-holiday debacle revealed all sorts of troubling trends: Who's our head of state? Is the coalition a constitutionally elected government?

If you're going to partake in the political process, shouldn't we all make it our responsibility to understand it? We don't even have complicated issues like a State College system to deal with like the Americans do. All things being equal, our parliament is pretty easy to understand. Only two years ago did we as a country shoot down a change to a mixed-member proportion system not because of an educated decision, but our general laziness to figure out what the hell mixed-member proportion actually meant.

We need a way to make Canadian politics exciting. There must be a way to inject intrigue and enthusiasm about how our country is run, and a lot of that has to do with our actual leaders I suppose. Not exactly a bunch of visionaries, these boys and girls.

Should be an interesting day still. I thoroughly enjoy the fact that as we have all been swept up in the Obamafication of western society, we've forgotten that here at home our own gong show of a government has been twiddling it's thumbs in time-out, still bickering and still doing no actual governing to speak of.