rex murphy

possibly the funniest looking head in canadian punditry, rex murphy also uses a rarefied lexicon (a lot of big words) that makes one haveta end up looking up the words in the dictionary assuming one has a dictionary lying around these days.

my buddy zee inspired me to take a stab at this humdinger of humanity. you can see his stab here. he really pushes it.

tired patience v. willful obstinance/ignorance

my girlfriend used to get really annoyed at my continual viewing of the political gabfests that litter the sunday morning television landscape until, one day, i referred to them as 'my stories'. this seemed to put her at ease a bit because, i guess, she realized that i didn't take them too seriously.

if you've never seen the mcgaughlin group in action someone's compiled a pretty funny edit together here.

some caricatures

a few attempts at caricatures. these are of the illustrious and former leader of the canadian government: jean 'dat's right' chretien. the expressions i culled from photos taken during the gomery commission on misapropriations of tax dollars during the 1993 'fight to save canada'.

i find that some of these actually look like him though some don't.