Willy Loman

I drew "The Legacy" a while back when Stephen Harper, our former prime minister, the one that hid in a closet when we were attacked, decided to make Canada a petrol state and merged the Ministry of Environment with the Ministry of Natural Resources.   For my American friends Harper was a Prime Minister, sort of a cross between Bush and Trump, an evangelical who didn't tweet.  With humanity only having 82 years left, if we continue to do nothing about reducing the burning of fossil fuels, consider it a story of hope that some of us will survive into the next century. You can now find more of my fun pics, gifs and movies at the newly designed ffibs.ca

John Kerry, the new Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee reveals more about Afghanistan in interviewing Hillary Clinton at her confirmation hearing, for Secretary of State, than our government has told us in the last four years. Politicians, though they may be, they sound like adults in discussing the plans for going forward. A couple of my favorite lines include Kerry’s description of Iraq and Afghanistan: Iraq is government without a country and Afghanistan is a country without a government. The other line is from Hillary when talking about setting the objectives for success: Our expectations need to be set with a large dose of humility . Humility, a word we have not heard from an American government since Carter’s term and certainly not one that is in our neoconservative government's vocabulary. I’m starting to get excited about this new American government. The video was posted by Brave New Films . JAWL

According to the first projections on voter turn out, it looks like 136.6 million Americans will have voted in yesterday’s election. That would give 2008 a 64.1 per cent turnout rate or the highest turnout rate since 1908, There’s also a big shift in terms of demographic composition of the electorate with a large increase in black and Hispanic voting, with only 74 per cent of the electorate consisted of white males which is down from 81 per cent in 2000. It also looks like young American voters have dispelled the notion of an apathetic generation voting in record numbers. The Millennial generation (a term that we will quickly get tired of hearing) is making their mark on politics and shaping our future. Meanwhile only 59.1 per cent of Canadians turned out to vote on Oct. 14, an all-time low. A spring election would have produced a very different result in Canada, but unfortunately now we will have to wait at least another year before we can make change in Canada. One can ...