Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

So Stephen shuffled the cabinet. And the results were about as surprise-free as you could expect.

Every time there's a new cabinet, or a new parliament, I get depressed all over again looking at the sea of old white male faces. Not that there's anything wrong with being old, white, or male. But there are other kinds of people in the country, and it is sad to see them so perpetually under-represented when it comes to running the country.

Of course, if there's one thing you can say about this particular government, it's that it's really the Stephen Harper show -- we're not being run by a cabinet of old white guys, we're being run by a single middle-aged egotistical white guy. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse.

Three women. Plus Diane Ablonczy, who gets a secretary of state job so that people will stop asking "why is Diane Ablonczy a back-bencher".

I should be used to this by now, but it continues to depress me.