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Out on the Weekend
(Permanent Musical Accompaniment to the Last Post of the Week from the Blog’s Favourite Living Canadian)
It looks like vice-president J. Divan Vance has decided that the road to glory lies in his ability to become the most fundamentally unlikable human in American politics. Granted, he has a high bar to clear but, barring the patriotic intervention of certain coronary arteries, his boss is due to leave office in 2029. So, Vance is out there in the wild, making his own case. For example, here he is on the subject of America’s homeless population:
And I don't know for the life of me what happened in this country where we decided that the compassionate thing was to let somebody fester on the streets ... instead of get the treatment that they need. It's very