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Congratulations. About damn time. Welcome to the the wide world of hackery, Scoop.

Congrats man! Selfishly, this means more time for a certain Rogue I know to level!

Good job, Ryan. I second Mesh's "About damn time..." Keep us posted on the transition.

Yay.

Congrats, Ryan. Though "60 hour weeks that involve 40 hours of pointless, menial clerical work" sounds like a description of most 3L jobs at Boorman, Booze, & Sons etc. Enjoy your freedom while it lasts. BTW, as the only American acquaintance of mine who has shown even that minimal interest in the Canadian election necessary to know that it is occurring, you may be glad to hear that the Conservatives have won a minority government, which among many other things means that the succession of bejowled and corrupt Frenchman who have run the country for the last several decades will be at least briefly interrupted.

That certainly is good news, though it looks as if the Tories will have to court the previously reigning liberals, the socialists, or Quebecois nativists in order to assemble a coalition government. Good times. Good times.

Yay for NPR. You would have never heard about it from Rush.

oddly enough, I caught that on the bus this morning. about the canadian election, that is.

HUZZAH to no more hoteling!

Andrew Coyne, columnist for Canada's National Post, charted the election results under the heading of Fascists {Conservatives}; Crooks {Liberals}, Traitors {the Bloc}; and Communists {the NDP}. All but the first description are arguably not even mildly satirical.

As you note, Ryan, the Conservatives will be fighting an uphill battle throughout their doubtless brief upcoming term, and they are unlikely to achieve many of their legislative goals.

It should also be noted, pace most commentators both within and outside Canada, that the Tory victory in many ways signals not a qualified victory for conservatism in Canada but its final defeat. Over the course of the last several years the Conservative Pary has gradually "moderated" their policies to such a degree that the greatest disagreements between them and the Liberals are such momentous questions as whether we should opt out of Kyoto and what form a proposed national daycare program should take.

But Harper is the most intelligent and principled PM we've had in decades, and the members of his party, by virtue of their precarious political position and relatively brief formal involvement in politics, are unlikely to succumb to corruption for at least several years. Surviving Canadian politics as a libertarian/conservative is a matter of being grateful for small mercies.

Julian: you may be right about 3L law jobs, but getting paid to bitch people out is a lot more fun than being paid to kiss butt all day.

jCave, were you saying that Rush would not comment on the Canadian elections? He did in fact comment on his show Tuesday because he believed it newsworthy that conservatives carried the day. As a "professor" who promotes "advanced conservative studies," surely you must have known he would? In fact, as memory serves, I believe it came up in his opening monologue.

well, blow me down!