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Those NDs! Always with an eye on the bottom line:

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Convention direct Caucus not to vote for the Conservative legislation to increase the basic age of consent for sexual activity to sixteen years of age; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the NDP Federal Caucus work to ensure that the Age of Consent for anal sex be consistent with that for all other types of sexual activity.

Sounds like a winner on the hustings to me.

Stephen Taylor has much, much more on the leaked NDP draft policy document. I could only get halfway through part two of seven in total before I gave up.

But while I'm in an anal frame of mind, I couldn't help but laugh at Jack "Cut'n'Run" Layton's appearance on CBC's The National tonight, explaining his valiant stand against, as he put it, "the Afghani people."

See, Jack, unless you were speaking in Hindi or Urdu (I warned you I was going to be anal about this), there are no people called the "Afghani." They are called "Afghan." The basic local currency is called the "Afghani."

Maybe it was a Freudian slip. The Afghans, to you, are nothing more than worthless scraps of paper to be burnt at the altar of your political ambition. Now it's starting to make sense.