{"id":339,"date":"2009-01-07T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/01\/07\/puck-off\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T03:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T03:04:00","slug":"puck-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/01\/07\/puck-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Puck off"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to comment on the result of last night’s World Junior Hockey Championship gold medal game*, for fear of a certain Swede <\/a>coming up here and clobbering me. I wanted to focus instead on one particular aspect of TSN<\/a>‘s pre-game coverage.<\/p>\n

Between live on-ice updates and taped interviews with coaches and former players, the announcers chatted with a studio guest – none other than that smug git<\/s> our esteemed Prime Minister, Stephen Harper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr E Man turned to me incredulously.<\/p>\n

“What the fuck’s he doing there?!” he asked.<\/p>\n

“It’s a good thing”, I replied. “If it starts to look like we’re going to lose, he’ll suspend the game and hope the Swedish team self-destructs before play restarts”.<\/p>\n

Fnar fnar.<\/p>\n

Seriously, how is Harper still PM? And while we’re at it, how is Bush still POTUS? The instant change-over you get in the UK and Canada is too short a transition, but the American transistion is waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long.<\/p>\n

Methinks 2009 will improve greatly when both men are gone.<\/p>\n

————————<\/p>\n

*Other than a brief “woo hoo!”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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