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The public concern over celebrity deaths is sickening. I mean, if this had been Clint Eastwood, Quentin Tarantino, or someone who had a meaningful contribution to the world of Hollywood filmmaking who died, I can understand the outcry. Heath Ledger on the other hand was in the movie A Knight's Tale, you know the one where the medieval crowd performed a prerennaisance version of Queen's "We Will Rock You." Granted the editors at Tiger Beat are probably pretty torn up about having to rework next years cover shots, and a few fifteen year olds are probably heartsick over the matter, BUT WHY THE FUCK IS THIS HEADLINE NEWS.

Everyone is gonig to dredge up the "Brokeback" role, where he was nominated for an Oscar. You know if Ang Lee really wanted to make a movie about "gay rights" MAYBE HE SHOULD HAVE CAST AN ACTUAL GAY MAN. Then of course the world might have been up in arms, instead you had a pair of A list actors, who are guaranteed to bring out a large number of wet panties, going through the motions. The best line comes from the extras on the "Knocked Up" Dvd, "if Ang Lee really wanted to impress me, he would have shown Jake Gyllenhall on all fours taking a mouth full of Ledger." Truer words have never been spoken.

Over the last 2 days this has been on of the most talked about news stories, airing before stories about: Stephan Dione making statements expressing a desire to lead a NATO force in an invasion of Pakistan. A CANADIAN POLITICIAN WANTS TO INVADE SOMEWHERE..SOMEWHERE WITH A NUKE. The closest anyone in Canada has ever come to this is probably buried in some old Reform party agenda to invade Quebec. There was a massacre in Kenya during a protest, violence after the recent election is still continuing, one fucking celebrity trumps that?

Lets try not to forget that this asshole died from a drug overdose, can we please pull our head's out of our asses.

I remember how hot a topic it was when the Progressive Conservatives were going to merge with the Reform Party. You know when everyone laughed at the C.R.A.P. acronym, and Canadian political satire was more than just jokes about how every male M.P. wants to bone Belinda Stronach. Those were the days. With an election just around the corner, and a country who seem to be more fixated on the outcome of the American Presidential primaries than our own political situation I have come to miss the old way in Canadian politics. I truly miss old Preston Manning’s crazed right wing agenda, at least in those days there were some politics involved in an election. Since the Harper government has taken power, outside of course of the 2% reduction in our G.S.T. there has been little to no political action on the part of the Government. From what I can see this is playing out to be the most boring election in Canadian history. The Liberal party is still trying to figure just what their platform is, and how exactly they elected Stephan Dion, because the only logical answer I can come up with is that he is space filler until Justin Trudeau takes over. The Conservatives are holding so close to Prime Minister Harper’s strict do-nothing agenda that one questions whether there is a hidden gulag in northern Quebec for party dissenters, and well no one really cares what Jack Layton has to say. The Canadian political scene used to look like a dysfunctional family reunion every time an election was called. The zany N.D.P uncle with their socialist motivated agenda, Preston and reform party trying to reunite church and state and rule with an iron right winged fist, the Conservative attempting to live down Brian Mulroney and the Liberals still coasting on the wings of Pierre Trudeau (well that and no one could understand their leader). Today it seems like Canadian politics is as predictable as a Michael Crichton novel being acted out by a cast composed entirely of Keanu Reaves (with of course some hot young actress playing Miss Stronach). The Conservatives are going to play the trust card (with some anti-homosexual innuendo’s for good measure), Dion is going to appear beside David Suzuki and a melting iceberg and prattle on about the environment (that or just play An Inconvenient Truth at all his rallies), and well Jack Layton is going to diddle his thumbs and say something about children and health care. Even the Bloc Quebecois has stopped making noise, largely thanks to the “nation” distinction given to Quebec, at least they used to threaten imminent separation, now its more of a “yeah we’ll get around to it” agenda. I am thoroughly disappointed, I used to get excited at the thought of a coming election and now I just get apathetic. Short of Stephen Harper dancing in a Canadian Flag leotard to the Odds Heterosexual Man during his campaign videos I expect a yawner. I mean honestly, lets have a little bit of pizzazz; people might actually start watching the CBC for something other than Hockey Night in Canada.