Hobo Swing

Building off my last post, I'd like to continue with nostalgia by invoking not only an elementary school cereal song with the line "Trix, Kix, Mueslix, Special K and Alpha-Bits" that came to my mind as I was killing time at a local supermarket this morning but also the song "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin and Sydney Brown, as covered in recent tutoring sessions alongside Hobbesian, Kantian and utilitarian ethics and questions revolving around the implicit implications of brain drains, statues and lego dedications not unlike the recent Kijiji incident in Ottawa. Politics and political philosophy aside, how could anyone hate the following ragtime lyrics?

Oh go 'way man I can hypnotize dis nation,
I can shake de earth's foundation wid de Maple Leaf Rag
Oh go 'way man just hold you breath a minit,
For there's not a stunt thats in it with the Maple Leaf Rag.

In terms of hockey, the Toronto Maple Leafs played against the New York Rangers tonight and lost. At least it was somewhat dignified, unlike the massacre of the Denver Broncos at the hands of the New England Patriots. I've already discussed Tim Tebow at length, so I won't do it again. All I'll say is that Tom Brady is a Catholic. I don't know if the Southern Baptist Convention will find fault with Catholicism not unlike its problem with Mitt Romney and his Mormon beliefs, but holier-than-thou organized religion, as seen in Jefferson Bethke's rant, can misinterpret, whatever that may mean, rather than enlighten.

Sticking to secular policies, I disagree with many of Romney's established conservative by convenience platform similar to how I feel increasingly disillusioned with the same conservative by convenience tactics from the incumbent Premier. Christy Clark may have the charisma as the flag-waving Gordon Campbell unlike the adjacent lego-figure who still looks animated in a picture together, but I can't say the federal Liberal University Model Parliament leader of 1989 is a federal Liberal anymore.

Even if Clark isn't a federal Liberal anymore, she and every citizen of Canada can have their say in determining the next leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, though the primary process in terms of candidate selection is not entirely open in order to avoid trolls. Nevertheless, it's an innovative strategy for a third party that needs to cast off its entitlement and subsequently ride the rails with only cereal and Eggo frozen waffles for breakfast rather than lobster omelettes and champagne.