the Naked Truth

We always want to hear the truth from our politicians. We want the naked truth and none of this glossy polical rhetoric. But Canadian politicians seem to have misconstrued what we're looking for.

Liberal leadership candidate, Scott Brison, posed nude for a calendar which is raising money for prostate and ovarian cancer research. Apparently he posing nude pretending to look into the refrigerator and, thankfully, the door covers the goods. The Globe and Mail quoted Mr. Brison as saying:

"It's naked ambition for a good cause. My father had prostate cancer. My uncle died of cancer. . . . . We're not unique to Canadians. Cancer research is a cause that's very close my heart."

Bob Rae, another Liberal Leadership candidate, didn't want to be outdone. So here he is on the Rick Mercer Report:

Google Bomb

Try entering the words "miserable failure" into a google searchbar. What do you come up with? The biography of President George W. Bush on the White House website.

How is this possible? The answer my friend is the google bomb. As wikipedia explains: "Because of the way that Google's algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher if the sites that link to that page use consistent anchor text. A Google bomb is created if a large number of sites link to the page in this manner." A small number of sites (~32) all having the same link can be enough to create such a google bomb.

And before you ask, no George Bush's website doesn't appear when you search moron or dumbass.