As everyone knows by now, one of the wonderful things about the Web and blogging is that, unlike writers for conventional (and necessary) media, bloggers can say pretty much whatever they want. We're not obliged to pacify editors, owners, or advertisers. So, the following...

Here in the Great White North, a cretin is currently Prime Minister. Now, everybody knows this, including even writers for The National Post (Canada's paper of the neo-conservative right). Yes, even they are calling, in polite terms, Stephen "The Smirk That Would Be King" Harper a cretin. They're kind of forced to, really. After all, anyone who can't figure out 34% < 50% < 50%+ has to be stupid, right? And unfit to govern, right? Right. It must be driving them mad.