So 2007 has been relegated to the dustbins of history, and not a moment too soon. It wasn't as bad a year for me personally as some others -- no deaths in the family, no husbands hitting the road -- but outside of my personal realm it was a weird year nonetheless.Divisive Rove-style politics and rhetoric arrived in Canada with the splash of a turd hitting the toilet bowl water. The gap between "conservative" and "liberal" grew ever wider and the volume got turned up to a low shriek. Authoritarianism sped up from a slow creep to a steady canter as cops used deadly weapons on the citizens they're paid to protect in unprecedented numbers. The busybody faithful, unfortunately not raptured, continued to insist in increasingly strident tones on their right to denigrate minorities and interfere in the private lives of others. Around the world, war continued to claim the lives of soldiers and citizens, and people continued, inexplicably, to support it. Looking back, it reads like a laundry list of all that's wrong, bad and stupid in the world.
Or maybe a "To Do" list. Rest up today, there's a lot of work to be done starting tomorrow.
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