things i learned watching CBC News: Sunday Night
* giving visa extensions to Romanian strippers who work on your campaign might cause you unwanted scrutiny.
* legislative bodies where there's lots of yelling, booing and pounding of desktops might focus more attention on the debates taking place there, thus keeping the electorate more informed. but even if not, it's pretty damn entertaining.
* joining the US Army to "get an education" can lead to unexpected consequences when we decide to fight protracted, illegal land wars in Asia.
*striking liquor store workers in Quebec are sending people surging over the borders of Ontario and New Brunswick (and, one might imagine, New Hampshire) to procure their holiday intoxicants. wait, even their liquor store employees are unionized?
* i may be developing a crush on Carole MacNeil.
Comments
How are you getting the CBC? And more importantly, with the absence of "Hockey Night in Canada," why are you watching it?
Posted by: matt | December 13, 2004 07:07 PM
Oh, CBC. I was like, 'why did the CBS news have so many stories on Canada?' and realized by your fourth point that I must have read something wrong. Anyway, I agree on your comment about a little more funny yelling and banging in Congress could make more constituents pay attention to what the F is going on. Liven C-SPAN up a bit. It's sad the elected leaders are just as bad when it comes to being interested in what's happening. Last night on "60 Minutes" they had out-going SC Sentor Fritz Hollings on and he said no one even listened to his farewell speech, no one shows up to the floor ever except to vote, everything else they watch on a live feed to their offices. But I doubt they even watch that, they're probably too busy raising money and getting blowjobs from interns. Anyway, their loss on missing Fritz's farwell speech, they guy is a RIOT! I'm sad he's leaving, we need more crazy-ass democratic mutha fuckas with absoultely no filters between their brains and mouths in the Senate!
Posted by: Claire | December 13, 2004 08:01 PM
channel 103 here is some weird International News channel and they show a bunch of different broadcasts all day long. i just noticed the CBC on there recently - it's kind of like watching the news in some alternate universe.
Posted by: jamie | December 14, 2004 09:57 AM
I blame Canada.
Posted by: Bowles | December 14, 2004 12:28 PM
Never mind all that; where are the pictures of the Romanian strippers? Bowles and I were raised on English tabloids and we demand a salacious kiss-n-tell from the "bubbly Bucharest burlesque broad" immediately
Posted by: WisdomWeasel | December 14, 2004 03:23 PM