It’s a bit of a travesty that we’re realistically at a point where America could become what Canada should be. We could go backward while the US goes forward. It’s disappointing that all of the sudden our country’s politics are ridiculously divisive and more regionalized. We have a Prime Minister who hates everything about Canada’s political history (And I’m not a rabid anti-Harper guy or anything. I think, considering the circumstances, he’s done a fair job [until recently with Flaherty and Clement being dicks all the time] but, seriously, he doesn’t seem to like the idea of Canada.) and an opposition that is out of money and in disarray.

There are very few lights.

But who knows where things will go. I’ve still got the cynicism and I’ve still got that impending feeling that the Republican machine can steamroll through and take this election again. But there’s a nagging hope inside of me after tonight. And that’s not bad at all.

I will say this, though: when did CNN get so terrible? I know Fox News Channel is the popular whipping boy as far as cable news channels go — and, damn, do they ever deserve it — but CNN is, I think, worse at the moment. At least Fox has the twisted decency to wear its bias on its sleeve, hiring Karl Rove and running all sorts of terrible headlines in that stupid ticker.

CNN, on the other hand, has this air of still being legitimate. But the honest truth about them is that they’re a bunch of muckracking assholes. They’re not necessarily biased toward any political angle, but they’re clearly desperate for big drama all the goddamned time. It’s to the point where they can’t speak to a woman at this convention without asking her, first, if she is a Hillary supporter and, more importantly, if she hates Barack Obama because of it.

Wolf Blitzer is perhaps the only political TV personality without a grasp on how politics work. James Carville is like a hundred years old and just hates everything that young people might like. Anderson Cooper is awesome but clearly looks uncomfortable. And the rest of them are a bunch of tools.

That crazy touch-screen they have IS pretty cool, though. It’s like a giant iPhone!

Mistakes happen, even to those who are fictional and have superpowers. Which is why seeing mistakes like this just make me feel really good about myself:

Hey John McCain, here’s a new headline for your website: McCain’s communications staff unsure on correct spelling of opponent’s name.

Seriously. That’s not even a typo. The ‘k’ key isn’t adjacent to ‘h’. It’s just the result of someone legitimately thinking Barack Obama spells his first name as ‘Barach’. Like ‘Bach’, but with an extra syllable. Killer.