So there’s this other debate tomorrow, apparently. Some Paulson or Pele or Peilin person versus some guy called Biding or somethin’. Anyway, word is, people might be watching, instead of the main event, the Canadian leaders’ debate…

No accountin’ fer taste.

Seriously, the comments in the linked story are sadly true. Here we are, in Canada, sitting on the verge of giving the Harper Conservatives (note: no, not ‘Progressive-Conservatives’… that would be… wrong… very, very wrong…) a majority, and no one so much wants to watch, do they? That whole bit about someone nominating the mayor of Wasilla as their VP candidate, and her bouncing around between, apparently, formidable sound-bite jingoism judo in the Alaska debates at last report, and coming off a bit like a deer in the headlights in an interview with a normally pretty easygoing reporter last week, it’s gonna spur some curiosity about what’s gonna happen there, sure…

Me, I guess I’m gonna do my civic duty and watch the locals do their thing… Y’know… Possibly with Atrios’ comment threads on the US VP thing running on a laptop, so I can at least get the reaction/gist stuff…

Truth be told, yes, I sure as hell do care. Beyond general distrust of the party that gave us Stockwell Day, it mostly comes down to thinking anyone as dedicated as the Harper conservatives to keeping their candidates from actually showing up at candidates’ meetings or talking to the press—to the point they stage manage the fuck outta Hill press conferences and whisk their people into the RCMP-protected holding area to avoid such ugly complications as national reporters asking awkward questions—probably isn’t so likely to do democracy real well. So please, please, please, let’s not give these nutters a majority. Please. Pretty please. You don’t want those assholes to get a majority…

Erm… Sorry… I said that ‘assholes’ part out loud, didn’t I?

Anyway. Yeah. Just reminding folks who vote up here. There’s a couple debates tomorrow. Multitask, if you must.