One of Canada's lesser-known exports is evil. In fact, a very significant fraction of Canada's annual evil production is earmarket for foreign consumption, like Celine Dion, and commercials starring William Shatner. The domestic market just isn't what it was, these days. Ever since Stockwell Day was booted out as leader of the Alliance, the evil market has been positively stagnant. The evil industry is looking at hard times; they ask themselves, looking back at the glorious successes and shining fortunes of their past, will they ever again find an evil commodity so marketable as press mogul Conrad Black?
He is a baron now. Not unlike Vladimir Harkonnen.
Conrad Black gave up his Canadian citizenship to accept a peerage in Britain. What an ingrate. He had Canadianness just dropped right into his lap at birth, and did he appreciate it? No, sir! There are starving socialists in Washington who'd kill to be Canadian, and Black casts aside this wond'rous gift like an empty tube of lubricating jelly. And all to become part of an atavistic vestigial prosthesis dangling feebly from the anus of civilised society. It's like he renounced a lifetime's supply of chocolate for a tube of Cheese Whiz and some pork rinds.
I would not cross the street to piss upon him if he were on fire.
Though I am sure that, were he to find himself unexpectedly alight, he would refuse my micturary assistance in any case.
It pleases me that his right-wing media empire is crumbling.
Posted by aloysius at November 20, 2003 08:10 PM | TrackBack |