To return to a matter raised about 40 posts ago -- Mr. Harper's visit to hospital:

Stephen Harper really is asthmatic; he's notorious for coming down with severe bronchitis precisely when his handlers want him out prancing for the public. An asthmatic with a chest cold often needs to go to the hospital even if he does have a family doctor -- that's where the X-Ray machine is, and the technician to operate it at nine o'clock at night.

Even if we aren't too crazy about the Conservative Party, we must recognize Mr. Harper for what he is -- an economist with a serious calling to serve the public. He hasn't got horns, cloven hooves or a tail, and he isn't out to sell us all down the river.

That was Stockwell Day.