I can actually picture a five year old girl with ringlets, and her fingers stuck in her ears, while her harried mother insists that it's bath time.

Apparently, despite the feverish linking and higher-than-ever-expected web traffic, no one is listening. This is getting more press in the US than in Canada. Some say it's because only a portion of us Canadians are "wired", and not all the wired ones read blogs. Is that really the case? Millions of Canadians work in offices, sitting in front of our computers all day. We know how to use them. If there were a sale on airline tickets, you'd be amazed how quickly navigation could be learned! But apparently, the thieving government isn't nearly as important.

Most Canadians just aren't interested. I can scream till I'm blue in the face, as can many of my fellow bloggers, but no one will go looking for the news if they don't want to find it. A few weeks back I wrote about a friend of mine who is a liberal, a journalist, and an avid detractor of Fox news. I tried to bring the subject of Mr. Brault's testimony up to her the other night on the phone, and she didn't want to know. "I haven't read the blogs. I'm not interested." Not interested. I get this from her over a lot of important issues, including the Iraq elections, the capture of Saddam, and the spate of beheadings that took place last summer. Not interested. She's a fucking journalist!!!! She's supposed to be interested. But like so many others, she has her fingers in her ears, and she is refusing to hear the bad news. She's an ostrich.

How many ostriches do you know personally? Look around your dinner table. Look at your coworkers and the guy you play golf with on Sundays. These are the ones that have been voting Liberal since they turned 18 and their parents told them to, and will do so until they die. Because it's easier than facing up to their mistakes.

So what can we do? Blog, I suppose. Letters to the Editor? Maybe. Leaflets and flyers - hey, why not? They're the domain of lefties anyway, so maybe they'll actually read them. The people don't want to hear what's happening, but we've got to find a way to make them listen. Preferably without being as obnoxious as they are when they're trying to make a point. Any suggestions?