As the Stronach churns....

Brain: "You have three more pages to write, about a dozen articles to read, and a good 4 or 5 errands to run."
Body: *cooked to ash with the heat of a thousand white suns*
Brain: "Well what are you waiting for? Get a move on!"

On another note, I was wondering if I should create a custom-filter for the political stuff. I'm going to be pretty politically-focused for the next month, seeing as how much is riding on the next few weeks -- the first progressive budget, the election, and same-sex marriage -- at a time with such an unstable government. I find this a convenient place to rant.

I'm especially worried that I'm boring my three non-Canadian friends to tears with the soap opera that used to be our government. As addicted as I may be to "As the Stomach Churns" (Will Belinda leave Peter? Will Pat O'Brien screw over the country out of spite? Can Chuck Cadman save the day again?), I can't imagine this is very interesting to my German and American friends.

Do you guys want me to create a separate filter for the political stuff? Or are you okay with it as it is?

Since no one minds...

Well, after Pat O'Brien left the Liberal Party, he said he'd rather bring down the government than let the same-sex marriage bill pass. O'Brien is a former Catholic school gym teacher, which just seems to fit the stereotype, doesn't it?

Anyway, after O'Brien left, a group of about a dozen Liberal politicans met with Martin and said they'd vote to bring him down rather than let the same-sex marriage vote take place. Martin told them that if they did that, they'd get kicked out of the party and have to run as independents -- they'd no longer have access to the party's name or money. That seems to have shut them up for now.

Current makeup of the House of Commons:

152 in the Liberal/NDP coalition
152 in the Conservative/Bloc coalition
4 independents

• Caroline Parrish will vote to keep the government up -- she hates the Conservatives. she was tossed out of the Liberals for being too far to the left.
  
• Chuck Cadman will vote to keep the government up, but he's sick and undergoing cancer treatments.
  
• David Kilgour will likely vote against it.
  
• Pat O'Brien is probably going to vote against it.

That's 154/154 with a tie going to us. But one sick person, or party members changing sides at the last minute, could force an election and risk putting Harper the Homophobe in power. And the same-sex marriage bill hasn't even hit the Senate yet.

On an unrelated note, Supergirl: Many Happy Returns is the campiest thing I've read in a long time. It's about Supergirl going from a world that's quasi-realistic except with superheroes (they fan clubs and stalkers and families), to a campy parallel universe of clichéd superheroes and -villains and grossly unrealistic storylines.

It also has the infamous storyline where Superman is turned temporarily gay by pink kryptonite -- I kid you not, this is a canon story -- but the whole thing lasts exactly half a page. Still, it's worth it to see Superman -- that symbol of hypermasculinity -- saying "what a fabulous window treatment."