Your Tax Dollars at Worship

Any self-respecting Messiah needs at least the rudiments of liturgy and public devotion if he’s to be taken seriously. Never outdone in matters of piety, the boys at the CBC are preparing a modest musical hecatomb to the Hopeful One, to contain the 49 ‘musical offerings’ best expressing life north of 49. Obama really does turn the world on its head. Canadians still define the nation with reference South, (it’ll take the Apocalypse to change that), but in two short months we’ve gone from haughty moral superior to breathless supplicant. Surely He Who Changes will be most pleased.