Rose's Cantina

I'm avoiding American television today. And tomorrow. Maybe forever. Like that little crying girl on Youtube, I am sick of Branco Bama and Mitt Romney. Also, Bill Maher. And Bill O'Reilly. Certainly, the ladies of The View. I told Scott the other day that if the Republicans win, I'll have to avoid The View Forever. Elisabeth Hasselbeck will be even more insufferable than she is now. It's occurred to me that every time the Republicans win, it's like a dream sequence in which the nerds from the Big Bang Theory take over the high school from the cool kids. Or maybe the high school surrenders to The Shark Tank . And it just might happen, ladies and germs. Get your health care while you still can. Harvest those crops where the Canada Pipeline is going to be. And you, on the East Coast, prepare to wait for help from the PRIVATE SECTOR. FEMA will be a Democratic wet dream. It's looking suspiciously likely that the 'Pubs may take the Great Stat...

I woke up in the middle of the night and padded over to the computer to check the progress of Hurricane Sandy. I was really expecting for the worst, and there was some pretty bad news. Fires. Flooding. Displacement. But fortunately for the size of the Bosnywash Megalopolis, there weren't a lot of casualties. Not like Haiti, which apparently saw 68 storm casualties. Despite claiming its mandate was to be the voice of the world, there was nearly no talk on CNN about Haiti and all the people in that storm-torn place who are once again displaced or worse. This makes me sad. It reminds me that the United States continues to be a myopic place. It's to be expected, of course. I'm sure if we had that kind of devastation here in Canada, our focus would be our own backyard. But I do think the Canadian media would take time to recognize the others who have been hurt during such a terrible storm. My Facebook friend, the writer Jon Katz, blogged today that he and his wife ga...