Coals to Newcastle

is more like it, Wonkette (see Sept 28 entry). Canada has survived far more dangerous incursions from the dumb-asses attached to our nether regions (War of 1812 anyone? Right, they don't teach you about that 'cause we burned down your White House), and as for Bill O'Reilly we've been listening to Don Cherry's outrageous opinions for years. We can tell the difference between ranters and (brace yourself, he's a person of color) news anchors. We also have a history of partisanship in the national press, so it's unlikely to cause heart attacks among our intellectual lefties. "The Playboy channel to a nunnery"?? Suddenly Canadians are prudes? Sex-in-a-canoeing, polar-bear dipping, no-sodomy-laws-since-the-1960's-celebrating, Olympic-athletes-weed-smoking CANADIANS ARE PRUDES?

Get over yourselves. Unless all the evangelicals just drowned in the most recent sign-from-God-hurricane, you've got the tight-ass category all stuffed up. But the market on rants is WIDE open.