No, YOU shut the f**k up!

What a crazy political zoo we live in, when a sympathetic feminist Conservative senator urges aid groups to stop making waves or risk retribution from the Prime Minister and his band of thugs. Countless words have been written about this strange outburst, and what it really means.

Opposition parties have seized on it as proof of the "culture of intimidation" that Harper has established, and I must admit it stands as a shining example. Whether the Senator was trying to be helpful to the aid groups is secondary to the fact that she has unwittingly revealed the extent of the icy chill imposed by the PM.

There was even an element of humor, at least for me, when John Baird reared up on his paunchy hind legs to decry the Senator's unparliamentary behaviour, forgetting for the moment that he's the guy who famously told the entire city of Toronto to f**k off a few short months ago.

There is a war going on, here and in the USA, between those who want to just live and let live, and those who want everyone else to march to their tune. Aided and abetted by the media, who fan every flame of controversy into a flaming inferno, our politicians have gone truly bonkers trying to keep up, and we are not far behind.