Paul Martin is wishy washy
I haven’t lived in Canada for 7.5 years now, so I don’t know much about our new Prime Minister (PM), Paul Martin. China Digital News, however, has an interesting article which documents an incident where he made no fuss when two of his journalists were refused entry into the country. CDN claims the journalists were denied entry because they would write articles “not flattering to the government in Beijing.” On such an occasion, they believe that Paul Martin should have stood up for the right to speech of his journalists and caused an international incident.
Now, I’m no expert, but causing a political relations disaster with a world superpower over two journalists, no matter how important, would be a bad move, impolite, shortsighted, and tactless. Since Paul Martin is Canadian, I assume he has excellent manners, and would not insult the Chinese over such a small matter. Rather, he’ll pick a good time to land a sharp-witted blow, where the issue matters more than several visas.
Thinkgeek Haiku Winner
Reposting the ThinkGeek Winning Haiku for December 2004:
I had a dream where
I was in an infinite
loop, then the next night
My Mother: Blogger?
Today I got the most interesting email from my mother, who is currently 2408.7 miles away in Phoenix Arizona. She sent me a link to technorati and the 2005 Bloggies. This is quite interesting–pretty soon she’ll be full into the blogging thing. She has a few posts here on this blog under the pseudonym “perogy.” Can you say your mama blogs??
