Apolitical Staples

from a most excellent extra long-weekend on beautiful Gull Lake in the magnificent Haliburton region. I am still catching up with what I've missed but until then here are a couple of quick hits.

Sure it is cynical but if cynicism gets us a holiday in February then so be it.

Speaking of cynical, I loved this column from Andrew Coyne.

...At the provincial level, the election in Ontario promises to be the most tedious non-event in living memory. The Liberals can hardly dare to issue a platform, having broken every promise in the last. The Tories, principled sorts, have declined to offer much of any. Ontarians can have little clue what impact the election of either party would make in their lives, or what difference it would make which one they choose.
Is there any politics on Earth that is shallower, more boorish, less worthy of the attention of serious people than Canadian politics? Answer: There is none. Canadian politics is uniquely stupid. Our politics may not be quite as crude as the Americans, as cynical as the French, as corrupt as the Japanese. But for sheer vacuity, there is none to match us.