Ah, back to the Downtown Eastside. The place our worthy Premier says will be all nice and pretty when the Olympics (and the zillions of tourist dollars) arrive here in 2010. Warning: no breath should be held while awaiting this miracle.

Meanwhile, the Refor.......er......Canadian Allian.......um, sorry......ahh, Conservative Party, our very own self-proclaimed defenders of law and order seem to have decided (surprise!) that, well, those concepts don't actually apply to them. Smirkin' Steve and his pals, Peter McKay, Tony (I'm not really a doctor, I just play one in Parliament) Clement, David (Fooled ya!) Emerson, all want soooo badly to be Dumbya, Dickie and their pals. "We are Royalty, damn it! We run this country and we can do whatever we damn well please!" Sadly, it seems to be working so far.