Memo to Potential Young Conservatives

When Peter MacKay approaches you and asks you to take a picture with him at a party fundraiser, it is pretty cool. Despite this, it mostly signifies the way that the Conservative Party has a dearth of university-age females, so they are going to splash this photo of you all over the website so as to signal that they are so a Party of the Yoof. "Look, you guys!" they will say proudly to themselves, "we had a party and girls came!"

Either that or he has a crush on you. But probably more the posturing.

Oh, Lord, K-dawg is now calling everyone she knows to speak of this encounter.

Last night we saw Stephen Lewis. It was amazing, though somewhat depressing. This is absolutely the wrong way to look at all of his work and his amazing strength, but doesn't it make you feel lazy? Doesn't it make you feel morally inferior? For God's sake, there are 800 people (or children, don't remember) dying every day of AIDS and what have I done today? What am I going to do tomorrow? Nothing much. But I am going to send an e-mail to the Ottawa South NDP candidate, whose platform includes the 0.7% GNP goal for foreign aid, thus striking a blow at all that is evil and encouraging a culture of SHARING AND NICENESS like they told us in kindergarten, because those are good things on which to found a society. Unlike, for instance, that finger in the dike, mine-is-mine ideology called what? Ah, yes. Conservatism.

And scene.