The Cicero In Pants Summer Vacation

Ive been quiet on this blog lately. Why? Well, first because work is busy and life gets fun in summer. But also largely because politics is boring the hell out of me lately.

Look. I know stuff is going on. We are all going to pillory the Defense Minister because of the Afghanistan Torture. There seems to be a race among all jurisdictions to pass the best global warming law conforming to the graph below,

and somebody knew somethin' and didnt tell somebody else in the air india disaster. And Andre "I really suck at this whole politics thing" Boisclair is leaving - shock of shocks.

But by and large, I'm still bored. And I never really want my blog to just be a "read the paper. Comment on the day" type thing. I generally try to speak up if I think I can say something that others arent quite saying (at least not in the way I would) and that cant happen when whats happening in the paper just feels like more of the same old same old. All of this is to say that






Cicero in Pants is Going in to Summer Vacation Mode!





Does this mean I won't write? No!!! It means Im going to loosen my politics and policy only rule. If Paul Wells can write about jazz and I dont care but read him, and Kinsella can write about punk and I dont care but read him, then the 30 or 40 kind souls who read my stuff every day can surely grant me some latitude. So stay tuned to hear me bitch about the transformers movie... or something. After all, I need to write. It is my hunger. ;-) I'll still write politics if something happens to turn my crank though. I promise. I'll even title it Politics: so you junkies can otherwise ignore me.

In the meantime here's some predictions to tide you over: the Tories will be in power for another year and will go to the polls after the next budget which will cut our taxes. At that point they will have closed the "loan as donation" loophole that makes the new election spending law a farce, but it won't matter because by then the liberals will have mastered the art of soliciting for small donations like the tories do (what did you think there was some kind of magic secret formula to it?) so Jason Cherniak can quit whining. And Al Gore won't announce he's running for president until after the summer. The Daily Show and Colbert are going to be less funny for a while because there isnt much to make fun of, and people will go to a lot of summer blockbuster movies and walk out saying that the script sucks!

Anyway - if you are reading this, get outside and drink some sangria on a patio. We live in Canada. You don't wanna be wasting days like this. Now shoo.

PS. Yes, Spider-man 3 was a great big jumbled clusterflick. I enjoyed it anyway. But only because I'd been warned that it was awful. And because Im the kind of guy who might just wear spider-man pajamas to the office if they let me. Just sayin'.