Glad to see "uber" is in vogue

It's so cute when a 75-year-old conservative newspaper columnist teaches you the slang that all thems kids is using these days.

William Safire, I'm gonna miss you and your linguistic pedantry.

Poeticizations

Yes, I did submit
To a haiku collection.
Pleasant diversion.

At least the simulated Leafs still suck

So this is what we have as compensation for the NHL lockout.

Sigh.

Funny, we always thought of Canadians as "Virtual Americans"

Ok, I was sent to virtualcanadian.org recently, and I have a lot of questions. First, why choose a province? Do people really want to be virtual Newfies? Second, why "virtual Canadian," and not "virtual Briton" or "virtual French" or something? Will the dope smokers start up "virtual Hollander?"

Still, nothing beats the "disclaimer." Maybe I should trust my healthcare to someone who, though not a doctor, scored better on the MCATs than most actual doctors.

You forgot "canuck"

"One of the great frustrations of any Canadian is that well-intentioned Americans attempting to introduce other Americans to the real Canada seem to be in command of only about 12 words. Here they are in no particular order: loonies, toonies, snow, Tim Hortons, hockey, poutine, socialized medicine, DeGrassi Junior High, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Labatt, French, and the expression "eh." "

For love or health care

Canadian women, may God bless your sweet-as-maple-syrup souls.


Let the exodus begin!


EDIT:
Alternative proposal.

I read the news today, oh boy...

I definitely did not want to get out of bed this morning for reasons that had nothing to do with classes.

I'm kind of at a loss for words about the election right now. Not sure things have fully sunken in yet.

So I spent Election Night watching the one scratchy American channel I can pick up with my antenna. My apartment was infested with a half dozen Canadians who were both comforting and bit mocking. Maybe I scoffed at someone's proposal last week that Canada should be able to vote in the US election, but now I'm trying to calculate how many electoral college votes they'd get for 31 million people. Fifty-first state, indeed.

At least Jon Stewart was broadcast live on CTV. Al Sharpton has nary been funnier. And at least I had plenty of liquor in me last night. We are now projecting that Jaegermeister has won a permanent seat in my freezer.

I know, I know. I'll still be living in Canada for the next four or five years and blissfully (but only partly) removed from the worst of W. But I feel embarrassed right now. Afraid to look Canadians in the eye and say yeah I can't believe it either I'm sorry for my idiot countrymen whywhywhywhy etc.

But at least the election's been settled. Now I can go back to the serious debates, like who's the Greatest Canadian.