So it has come to this: "They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent."

"They" are Canadians (that's me!) and "we" are Americans.

If you haven't heard by now, Ann Coulter (darling of the conservative section of the US) has blasted my country. The above comment was uttered on some Fox news show (for more details).

By what right does one country "allow" another to exist? (Let alone on the same land mass.)

Now that the Republicans have the House, the Senate and the Presidency; now that the Democrats can no longer be the "whipping boy" of intellectual discourse in the American landscape: Canada can take their place?

But in my usual manner of addresing things, I have two words for anyone who puts too much thought into these things: fuck it.

Fuck it all: Coulter is entitled to her own (however asinine) opinions.

Fuck them all: All who believe the tripe that is spouted by talking political heads on TV ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Yet at the same time, their comments are absurd. Not "I wonder what was going through her head when she said that" absurd, but a more cerebral absurdity. Comments like that make you step back and re-examine yourself. Lewis Black describes it best:

"I'll repeat that, because that's the kind of sentence that, when you hear it, your brain comes to a screeching halt. And the left hand side of the brain looks at the right hand side of the brain, and goes, 'It's dark in here... and we may die.'"

And then there are times when no words can be used to describe the situation; it is now utterly pointless to exert mental energy.