Today, our neighbors to the north celebrate Thanksgiving — and as it helpfully coincides with a U.S. federal holiday, we cats are enjoying a three-day weekend. But we've been thinking. Here are some things we are decidedly not thankful for in 2010:
The number of repugnant people who have invaded our consciousness (and therefore, our lives) since the teabaggers hijacked the Republican Party and managed to nominate them. Case in point: Carl Paladino. Our experience is that politicians and religious leaders who target the alleged evils of homosexuality are usually doing it because they are closeted homosexuals themselves.
Eric Cantor. Eric, you're Jewish — why are you a Republican? Get out of that party already. They're a bunch of Nazis.
The foreclosure mess. We cats hate to sound like a bunch of old fuddy-duddies, but didn't there used to be a time when Americans could do anything? Achieve nuclear fission, pass the G.I. Bill, make the middle class accessible to nearly everybody? Now it feels as if most folks think that even a C or D grade is acceptable. Maybe they all work in the home financing industry.
Karl Rove and all shadowy right-wing election spending groups. Thanks a lot, Supreme Court.
So, are we cats in a bad mood this Canadian turkey day? Indeed not. U.S. politics are in a dispiriting state, but we've one thing to be very thankful for: Our pied-a-terre "escape hatch" in Quebec. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
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