... maybe it's Maybelline.

I'm not hear here to break the news of Stephen Harper's victory. Certainly you've heard those ominous bells tolling already. I just have a very frivolous question.

(Which did not even originally come from me, but from my 60-year-old mother who can't bear to watch Harper speak on tv...)

Who the hell does Harper's make-up? C'mon, seriously. As I watch him address the country, I can't fight off the vision of him in drag (which I'm beginning to think he'd be brilliant at -- no?). Is it the crooked dark eyeliner he sports for the cameras? Or is it that dark rougey shade of lipstick that adds colour to a face usually so void of it?

Mr P.M.: You are the man of the hour - whether we like it or not. You've got the cash (and soon, our cash)... so please, hire a professional and stop doing the nasty job yourself.