A post about Dexter (and not about Obama, at all)

I've been spending the last hour or so trying to locate episodes of Dexter: Season 3 online, and so far, I haven't found a single full episode. This shouldn't irritate me, but it does because last summer I was a wiz at finding streaming tv online. Now it seems like ever since my last laptop crashed in December '07, and I lost all of my handy bookmarked tabs, I've fallen completely out of the loop when it comes to finding content to filch online. Well, except for when it comes to torrents. I'm pretty well informed when it comes to finding the right bittorrent site. Problem is,  I don't have enough hard drive space to download a torrent of the entire season so far! Argh. Ah well, I guess you can't have everything. 

Serves me right too, seeing as Kate hasn't seen the show yet, and I promised we'd watch it together. It's only really out of boredom, and an inability to find anything else to do, that I wanted to watch the first episode of Season 3 without her. If nothing more than to whet my appetite for the season to come after we watch Seasons 1 & 2 together. I did however, manage to find various clips and trailers, such as the one above, and if these won't service my anticipation, then nothing will. 

I feel like I'm forgetting something..

Oh yeah! Barack Obama won the election! Man, how did Dexter take precedence over news like that? Well, it doesn't really, but I'm neither a political science major nor an American. There are lots of people whose opinions on this sort of thing actually matter, and they'll definitely have more informed things to say on the subject. But while I am on the subject of the new President, I'll say this: I, like many others, felt a collective sigh of relief today. And yeah, I'm Canadian, but I still felt a wash of relief come over me when the thought occurred to me that finally Bush's Reign of Terror was over. And that may sound corny, but it's true. 

If only the stale cloud of conservatism could be lifted from this country. We were fools for letting Harper hold onto power in Parliament, even in a minority government. Although, without proportional representation, how can the electoral system really speak for Canadians at all? If the best we can ever hope for are Liberal or Conservative governments ad infinitum, then we've all been had and our so-called Democracy is a sham.  

I still reserve my right to be a skeptic about the influence Obama will have, in America and abroad. The world has become an increasingly hellish place over the past 8 years, and it would be naive to think that the replacement of one politician, and one political party in a two-party system, could change all of that. That being said, maybe things will change. It's entirely possible that the Iraq War, as well as our armed occupation (oh sorry, I meant "our mission") in Afghanistan, will end, that the climate of fear in Fortress North America will dissipate, that our governments will begin to invest more in the green shift, and we can all look forward to a brighter and greener tomorrow. I'm just not going to hold my breath waiting for it to happen.

Or maybe I'm just bitter because I've got the flu and I'm peeing out of my bum?