Eric: You’re out of luck, or so CP reports.

I’m sitting here waiting for my bread to rise (which, incedentally, is like watching water boil) and reading some miscellaneous stuff online. One of the blogs I was on linked to a videoclip of Richard Dawkins at a church in Colorado Springs chatting with the pastor. Part one of my problem is the apparent ignorance of the pastor and his arrogance (while accusing Dawkins of arrogance). Part two of my problem began when I checked out the website of the church in question. They had, in the “New and Exciting” column a link called the “Jerusalem Diet” and from there, you can send an email (anonymously of course) to your fat friends. Yikes! And this is from a church? Sometimes I wonder about the message we send out as Christians. I mean, come on. First of all, there are better ways to talk to your friends about being overweight. Secondly, I don’t think that a pastor of a church should be marketing a diet plan specifically for “fat friends.” I don’t know, it just strikes me as a little wrong and inappropriate. Maybe I was already biased against him after watching his interview with Richard Dawkins and all the internal shuddering I did during it. If you are going to be interviewed by a very outspoken atheist, at least try to come accross as slightly intelligent and well-read. I hope that it was just the editing that was done by Dawkins et al. that made him look bad.

If reputable sources like Macleans magazine and Andrew Coyne say it, it must be true!

ahhh, Adam Radwanski has possibly made my day:

• As I’ve made clear many times before, it’s always best to defer to the wisdom of Noel Gallagher. So honestly, wouldn’t this have made the best possible entrance music for Paul Martin last night? (Next question: If he’d kept the receipts for the friends he bought, could demand a refund after they didn’t bother showing up at his darkest hour last night?)

…or maybe that is just my kitchen counter. It seems like everytime I turn around the pile is bigger.
But that is probably not the most interesting event going on in the world right now.
Biggest news is Canada has a new Prime Minister. The Rt. Hon. Paul Martin called the Hon. Stephen Harper last night to concede and to state that he will not be continuing on as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. It seems that Mr Dithers life-long ambition of being PM is over in 18 months.
So we have a Conservative government now. What does that mean? Who knows. The Senate is still Liberal as are all the major civil service positions and the Supreme Court. So, with a minority government (124 to 103 grit, 29 dipper, 51 bq, and 1 independent), Harper is basically screwed.
Results were not quite what I expected, although I wasn’t so bold as to put out seat projections. I thought the Liberals wouldn’t get as many seats as they managed to. And I did think that the local green candidate, Andrew Lewis, would do better. Maybe get a seat even. I guess we like the CPC here in Saanich-Gulf Islands. Its fine and dandy to vote green (last election) when you know that the conservative guy won’t be part of the government. But when you have a chance at getting a government mp, of course vote for him. Can’t say I blame everyone.
It was quite the distressing night last night, however. I had class till 9:30, then had arranged to meet someone afterwards (forgetting it was election night for some reason). So I didn’t get home until midnight, tragically, and had to wait until then to know the extent of the damage. So I didn’t get to sleep till after 1am. Poor me. Yet another election where the candidate I vote for does not get elected.

Today is election day in Canada. But I can’t say anything about that until after the polls close in the last electoral ridings. And since that is my riding, nothing to worry about until 7pm. On the downside, my class tonight goes until 9:30, so by the time I get home, we’ll probably already have a prime minister and, for the second federal election in a row, I won’t get to see the little riding pictures on TV change colour as they go liberal red, tory blue, or ndp orange. Woe is me.

Yay for the Science and Health section of the Globe and Mail. This article is ‘somewhat’ enlightening. The best part? The comment by Tim Johnston from Windsor: “Hmmmm. Interesting. As a man, I wonder how I’ll feel when the Liberals get trounced in the upcoming election? You guessed it.”
Oh the pain and agony.