1. For a fun time, be sure to check out the Gerrymandering game.

2. Saturday’s Globe profile echoes the Right Side Up hypothesis that Harper runs into trouble once he runs out of scripting.

3. The blogs are up in a roar over the news that the Conservatives will be sponsoring Pierre Bourque’s (from “news” site, bourque.org) car on the Canadian NASCAR circuit. This is definitely surprising news; I wasn’t even aware Canada had a NASCAR circuit. Still, it makes a certain degree of sense – if you enjoy watching cars go around and around in circles for hours, I can see how the Conservative Party would appeal to you.

My favourite quote from the story is via Diane Finley:

The minister won’t say how much money the sponsorship of the race car is costing the Conservative Party: “That would be Pepsi telling Coke what its recipe is.”

I’m not sure I fully understand her analogy in the first place, but given their historical dominance of the market, I for one, don’t think Coke has too much to fear from Pepsi.

4. The always insightful Paul Jackson has some musings on why Albertans don’t like the provincial Liberals:

Liberal Leader Kevin Taft, who is not a shark, but in an aquarium full of these preying creatures, sees victory ahead in the next provincial election.

If so, my friends, put your wallets in a safety deposit box, because a Liberal government will ransack taxpayers, and lead our province into Depression-era debt.

Why do you think Albertans have never elected a Liberal government since the First World War era?

Because we have long memories.

So lock up your daughters, as the Broadway musical proclaimed.

Yes! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve door knocked for the ALP and heard angry voters berate me with shouts of “damn that Rutherford!” or “**** Sifton, screwed our province!”.

5. I noticed an add by the government of Nova Scotia against Harper re: the Atlantic Accord in my Globe & Mail this morning…