A Yearning For The Hearth

You’ll have to trust me that I have good excuses.

A great deal of water has passed under the bridge in the past few months. The US has a new President, we’re in the midst of a recession and Canada nearly went through and unprecedented Constitutional crisis.

Since the Obama administration has taken office there’s been a change in tone and substance in the White House, or at least press corps room. Obama is starting off with such a great deposit of goodwill at home and abroad that whatever his success and failures early on, it will be difficult to get to anything through the blurry-eyed, rosy coverage supplied by international media. It’s a stark contrast: imagine if Bush had gone on Leno and made a Special Olympics crack?

More to follow…