Okay, okay, while it might TECHNICALLY be Hurray for Buttons Day , here at the Manor, we celebrate cooler shit, so I'm changing today to Hurray for ba-buttons Day , officially! Need some ideas on how to celebrate? Why not chug some maple syrup straight from the tree! Or you could fist-fight a rabid grizzly bear with your bare hands! Maybe you could even get real nasty with some fine lookin' ladies! All solid choices - so get to it - but don't forget to show him some love in the comments!

Is there a silver-lining with respect to Trump's brand of stupido fascism? It seems so, though  not for Americans. Boooo! Instead, it's for Canada-land, for example, whose citizenry just did a whiplash-fast about-face and voted liberal  in a big way. Shocker! But then they'd learned a valuable lesson. They'd seen the stomach-churning carnage of Trump's Christo-fascist second term. Next up? Our friends Down Under.  "Australia’s election was headed towards a conservative coalition," said The Economist last week, "but since Trump returned to the White House, Australians have watched in horror as he abandoned Ukraine, started a global trade war and purged tens of thousands of federal employees. This has given the Labor Party a boost ahead of the election on May 3rd. It is a remarkable reversal." Crikey, that's good news for them.  Meanwhile, and this is sort of off topic, but will someone kindly explain to me why Aussies vote with cardboard box...