Tuesday, April 11, 2006 — A Giant Fence of Fools

The weath­er is too beau­ti­ful for me to take pol­i­tics very seri­ous­ly. I’m also too engrossed in fin­ish­ing my fan­ta­sy nov­el to pay much attention.

An Amer­i­can Sen­a­tor is inter­viewed on Cana­di­an tele­vi­sion, explain­ing his plan to build a fif­teen-foot high, barb­wire-topped wall along the 6416 kilo­me­tre (3987 miles) bor­der between the Unit­ed States and Cana­da. The inter­view­er is ren­dered speech­less by increduli­ty as the Sen­a­tor express­es his inabil­i­ty to under­stand why Cana­di­ans would take offense at the project. I won­der what will hap­pen in the adja­cent New Brunswick and Maine towns where the bor­der runs through the mid­dle of the Pub­lic Library and the book check-in desk is in the U.S. and the book check-out is in Canada?

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