My Brain Has Melted

i am having a really lazy day and i am not proud of this. but, on the other hand, since i had a really productive saturday i am not feeling too much regret either. and really, what other choice does one have when "the hills" marathon is on MTV? no, seriously, there were at least 137 things i could have done today that had more value than following the antics of heidi and LC but in the end i was sucked in.

right now i am watching "Canada's Next Great Prime Minister" and loving it. not because i think any of these young people will actually take on the role but i am again reminded of how great this country is, despite the very real flaws that we hear about so often on the news.

over the past 48 hours i have watched two documentaries, "Jesus Camp" and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Terrorism". both left me feeling nauseous, for a number of different reasons, but mostly because i felt like something has going terribly wrong in america and i doubt things are going to turn around any time soon. to make a long story short, evangelical christians and the fox news network are working together to ruin america and the world. apparently the way it works is that stupid people watch fox news and believe the lies, then they pull their children out of the public school system and indoctrinate them to be the christian soldiers of the future. well, maybe it isn't exactly like that ...

which brings me back to the CBC. i should be clear that this isn't the part of the post where i go into some political diatribe about the CRTC, or the decline of the CBC, or even the value of a national broadcaster. no, this is where i feel an unusual sense of pride watching former prime ministers joke about penises and then follow-up with poignant questions about national security. and, even more, i appreciate that a person can go on national television and boldly question the past and present policies of our leaders without it being deemed "uncanadian" or being told to shut up (i shake my fist at you bill o'reilly!). having said that, the guy that quoted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a comparison of the israeli occupation of palestine to the canadian treatment of natives was not met with the most favourable response. obviously.

it is painfully clear that i have watched too much television today. literally. i am actually feeling pain in my face. i'm going to go take the CBC "Test the Nation" quiz and see how much my IQ has dropped.