This Too Shall Pass

The Canadian election ends in profound disappointment for Conservatives.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

“This too shall pass,” I’ll sometimes reassure the parents of constipated patients, tongue firmly in cheek.

That phrase was popularized by Abraham Lincoln, who had rather more to contend with during his life than the lazy bowels of children. He was born into poverty, lost his mom at the age of nine, later lost three of h…