MartinRyan is right: my first thought when I saw the thread title was, "Define politics!"

Besides, aren't most of us from the generation that claimed "the personal *is* political"?

I think it does us all good to read the political rants of our foreign friends. As a Canadian, I am most entertained by alla youse when you're orating from your various soapboxes -- and how the hell else am I supposed to learn what all those strange Facebook posts are about?

And if alla youse find Canuck discussion about Mr Harper and preoccupation with hockey boring -- well, no one's making you look.