Word of the day: "politicoendomasuchia"

[dianeduane]

Politicoendomasuchia, n: unease with the concept of politicians in costume.  -iast, one suffering from this unease.

(chuckle)  Looks like the Prime Minister of Canada may be enough of a Trekkie to have once appeared in a convention masquerade. Gasp! Stagger! Swoon! Yet another sign of the decline of Western civilization. Now Canadian bloggers are trying to find a picture to confirm the rumor. (Photoshopped fakes are already appearing.)

What will people who find this bothersome make of King Abdullah of Jordan, then? Or Stephen Hawking? (No, they'll say, it's OK in his case: he didn't actually dress up!)

(eyeroll)

Comments

[janeway216.livejournal.com]

We could use more Trekkies as world leaders. In my experience they tend to be bright, literate people who believe in the future. If only we could get rid of the tendency towards endless, circular arguments about pointless minutiae . . . but then again, it's not like we've got rid of that trait in the politicians we have.

;-)

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

This is my experience too.

So how, I ask myself, HOW did we get landed with the one who turned out to be Stephen Bloody Harper?