Trudeau vs. Brazeau

Timbuktu got taken by the Tuaregs. Now every major Northern city in Mali has been taken. All we can hope for now is that the Tuaregs weren't talking bull when they said that all they wanted was North Mali, and won't be compelled to take more just because they can.

Two politicians got into a boxing match. It was a charity match for cancer research. The liberal boxer, Justin Trudeau, wore a fake Katimavik tattoo during the fight. Before the match, during a debate, he argued on behalf of Katimavik, and the Conservative guy, James Moore, instead of replying to the question, essentially said "We'll settle this in the ring! We'll settle this in the ring!"

Now, that's not how the boxing match started, but it goes to show how some people felt that political debates could be settled based on who could punch harder. During the weigh-in, the topic of Katimavik came up again, and the Conservative boxer, Patrick Brazeau, replied by making puns on political wording to say that he was going to punch Trudeau, and that he, Brazeau, had a very large penis.

Brazeau was a gorilla, too. It was like, the Conservatives got a boxer, while the Liberals got a politician.

I don't really follow boxing, but I was shocked at how artless the match seemed. It was just two guys standing in a ring and punching each other in the head. To my surprise, Trudeau demolished Brazeau! You'd think that if you match a kind of average guy against a super hulk, the littler guy is going to have to use some technique to overcome the big guy's brute force. But no, the little guy and the big guy just stood there, punching each other in the head, and the big guy went crawling out of the ring, while the little guy was barely winded.

I'm glad that the guy supporting Katimavik won, but this whole little stint seemed... kind of primitive. I know no official decisions are going to change because of a boxing match, but the way it was hyped, and the way it went down, it really felt like people were trying to solve intellectual debates based on who could punch hardest.