Gee, times are tough for cranky folks like me these days. In the U.S., the Republicans are hardly worth mentioning anymore, as they dig themselves deeper and deeper into irrelevance, while, up here, Smirkin' Steve Harper (the world's dumbest leader, now that, um, er, um...what's his name? is gone) tries to figure out a way to tie his retrogressive "policies" (it's impossible not to use the scare quotes for his half-wit notions of governance) to the coat-tails of Obama's very progressive policies. What's a guy to do?

I'll think of something, I'm sure.