it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

[bcholmes]

The letter was, at its heart, a manifesto for social democracy

— Stephen Lewis, commenting on Jack Layton's final letter

God. I don't cry at funerals of friends and family. Yet, standing in the open plaza outside Roy Thompson, elbow to elbow with thousands of Torontonians, watching the service on a Jumbotron... I wept for a solid half hour.