Harperland: The Politics of Control (2010)

Harperland: The Politics of Control, by Lawrence Martin: A Review in Haiku form

Steve Harper, PM
He likes to be in control
Book takes aim, misses.

Honestly, I don't think I need to expand much more on that. The book tries to come off as a scathing account of how Stephen Harper has abused his power and has taken control of everything, but it barely goes beyond the surface of events that happened between 2006 (when Harper first took office) and 2010. Interesting, sure, but hardly an in-depth analysis of the Harper government. As an example of how in-depth this book was (or how much it wasn't), the last chapter would tell you exactly what the rest of the book covers.

His Girl Friday (1940)

I have a 5-minute review of this coming up in my next podcast, but I felt in the mood to actually update a review blog I set up months ago.

I wrote a haiku about it.

Subway Haiku

I wrote this tweet yesterday:

@stephen_g: I think I spotted a subway sub in a snowbank; desperate to escape death by mastication only to freeze to death in the snow.

It inspired me this morning while waiting for the bus to write a haiku.

"Desperation"

Destined for stomach;

Escape any way possible.

Icy death awaits.

Desperation by Stephen Gower is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at srgower.blogspot.com.