Caffeine intoxication anyone?

Remember that rant a while back about energy drinks? Well it's making headlines. Not the rant, but the issue in general. The Ottawa Citizen is running with this: Alarm grows over energy drinks.

The list at the end of the piece is interesting. The only problem is that it's probably U.S.-centric, which really sucks for a Canadian publication. From everything I've heard, and from what I've been able to find, Mountain Dew in Canada isn't caffeinated. Both CBC and BBC seem to support that tidbit of info.

Voting for mediocrity

It's election time again and it seems some candidates didn't bother waiting for the official call before their signs started popping up. Of course, some candidates used their budget as an elected rep a few weeks back to send out pamphlets that looked far more like campaign literature than the usual constituency information brochures. Rules? Pulling from the wrong budget? Blurring the lines between being an MP and being a candidate? Whatever could I be suggesting here?

Nothing new, that's for sure.

Pushing aside for a moment all the talk about fixed election dates and the spirit of the law versus the letter of the law (and who's breaking which promises), let's take a brief and absurd look at the leaders and see what options Canadians have this October.

Stephen Harper - One word: censorship. Unfair? Okay, *you* explain where the information flow got cut off following the last election.

Stephane Dion - If you can't be charismatic enough to win support the old-fashioned way, jump on the ever-popular environmental bandwagon and introduce something green and watch it implode.

Jack Layton - Remember Ontario under the NDP? Exactly.

Gilles Duceppe - Unless you live in Quebec you can't vote for Duceppe and his cronies, which says more than you might think.

Elizabeth May - With no chance of forming a government, the only real question is whether she'll get to at least join the national debates.