mouseland: definitely not the happiest place on earth

For anyone out there spending this weekend offering up prayers and sacrificing goats to the election gods, those are, indeed,  soothing-sounding words that are pouring forth from Jack Layton on his desire to Make Parliament Work — a phrase that has, ITQ must once again point out, gone from being an irritatingly vague, but tolerable political cliche to what linguists refer to as a ‘discourse particle’.