Live from the Nuke Free Zone

I know, I know, more MLPage, but I’m in a rush/drought. You’ll live.

First and foremost, just about everyone is reporting that troops are headed to Haiti under UN auspices. You can be sure I’m going to have some stuff to say about this, possibly tomorrow, at length.

The BBC is reporting that the Iraqi “government” has completed a draft of its interim constitution. I’ll believe it’s workable in the timeframes that are being discussed only after I see it happen, at this rate. Do you know how surreal it is to see Afghanistan appearing to make a recovery from its circumstances more quickly than Iraq? Granted, Afghanistan has been largely left to its own devices…

For those interested in the Second Amendment, for good or ill, I bring you this: the most loaded poll ever. Have you stopped beating your wife?

From the CBC, we get some more really dismaying results in the ongoing implosion of Nova Scotia’s public education system. As a recent survialumnus of the public education system here, I can safely say that the decline coincides fairly nicely with the Tories’ coming to power in the province. Their continued and dogged slashing of anything to do with education in the province is more than a little appalling, and I’m surprised people are only starting to notice what’s going wrong lately. It’s more than a little frustrating that the only actual complaining coming out of the state of the educational system is a series of protest marches by university students which only serve to make them look like idiots.

Dassit for now, yet more shall come later.