Saturday digest

- Exhibit A in the category of "reasons to think twice before voting for anyone under the age of 30": 26-year-old Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre (right), who used language that is quite unparliamentary in a House committee this week. Close observers of Poilievre know that wherever he is to be found, decorum is usually not.

Grow up, Poilievre, and despite your clear lack of life experience, try being a bit of a role model for a change.

- It looks like the Mounties made sure that no one would be unduly offended before proceeding with last weekend's terror arrests, but if anyone thinks that being nice is going to cause would-be suicide bombers to change their minds about us, perhaps they should think again, despite the hopes and dreams of the Angry Left. It's also encouraging to see calls for accountability from within the Muslim community without qualifying it by trotting out the usual excuses of Israel or "the climate of fear".

- Following the death of Zarqawi, the usual suspects were naturally looking hard for a cloud in the silver lining. These guys have so much invested in the failures of the coalition in Iraq that they can't even acknowledge the demise of a key al-Qaeda lieutenant without using the old "ya, but" qualifier. Is it any wonder that "we support the troops but they're not doing their (illegal) job all that well, are they?" message comes off as totally unpatriotic?

- Babs is going on the road to promote action to combat climate change. No word if Al Gore has been tapped for the opening slot, but no doubt we can expect Ms. Streisand to forsake the comfortable, yet shamefully polluting mode of air travel while on the road, and rather, use a Smart car as she travels from city to city all in the name of saving the Earth.

- Finally, on the subject of gas, have you seen the commercials for that new product for combatting flatulence that are just like Listerine's Pocket Strips? This girl should have taken some before her recent Canadian Idol audition.