The Role of Semantics in Afghanistan
I guess our mission in Afghanistan has come to this: bloggers on CBC's jazzy new jazzy news set-up arguing semantics around Afghani victims of torture (not to mention unconscionable government cover-ups followed by officially sanctioned slander campaigns against whistle-blowing good guys). Prisoners of war? Or detainees?
Well, newsflash - either way, they're still human beings, so... your point, please, defender of New Kanada? Call me a Feminist on the Left, but I thought we supposed to be the heroes in white hats delivering Afghanis FROM evil, not to it.
Anyway, it must be tough to be the New Conservative government up against the kind of government whistle-blowing citizens on the side of everything right and good that you claimed to be when you were out trolling for votes from a gullible Canadian public, eh? Which begs the question: who are we to think we know what's best for other citizens? Cripes, we live in a democracy and look who we elected!
Which brings me to Sooey's DOTY Awards for 2009. Why, what's a DOTY Award, you ask? Well, DOTY stands for Douche of the Year. And, although it was hard to narrow it down to just one winner, I did. Indeed. This year's DOTY Award winner is Peter Mackay. Congratulations, Dear Minister. You beat out some pretty tough competition, but, at the end of the day it was clear who deserved it most.
