And now, what wil become of us without barbarians?

[flemmings]

How odd. I didn't *like* Jack Layton-- the man who gave us Stephen Harper? No way-- but I can't imagine what life will be like without him. Probably because I can't remember what the NDP was like before he became its head, during the days of the Chretien-Martin hegemony. It seems we have no choice now but to become a two-party system, and the Liberals currently being as they are, that means a one-party system. Which is what the Chretien-Martin hegemony was too, but at least it was more-or-less the right party.

I'm also not used to politicians in office dying. It feels most peculiar.

Comments

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Hugs!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Thanks. (sniff)

[kickinpants.livejournal.com]

I apologize beforehand for my TOTALLY unrelated query. Have you been following Shimizu's Ze still? I was wondering about catching up. I haven't read much after book 6. Any thoughts? Still good?

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Good until you get to the last volume. Which I haven't read. But you get the backstory in ohh whatever the second to last was, which is a bit unexpected. You can sort of see where we're going from there, and word is last vol is a letdown from one's expectations.

[kickinpants.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm...Did you enjoy the backstory? I remember you were wondering what was up with Waki.

I'm sorry to hear about Jack Layton. I read that he had stepped down for a temporary leave in late July. It must have a terrible illness to work so quickly. It's very sad.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I was glad to get the backstory because of Waki, but also to find out about Grandfather and how he started. Waki and his chest wasn't quite what I'd expected ie wasn't the kind of pairing I prefer. ^_^ (Always thought there ought to have been something between him and Tall Loudmouth Shinigami-- Konoe?) There may be more details in the last volume which I really should look at.

It was a shock. He was consulting with party members on Saturday about the future, so maybe he knew something himself, but it wasn't a 'Farewell my friends, we must pick a successor' thing at all. 36 hours later he was dead. I'm glad in a way it was so fast, but that's not how cancer works IME.