Flavor Flav, one component of the seminal hip hop group Public Enemy, has used reality TV -- namely his hit VH1 show Flavor of Love -- to power his own career. But some are asking whether he's treading too close to the line between satire and the perpetuation of racial stereotypes.

According to the Delphic Oracle known as Wikipedia, right-wing pundit and sometime presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan first coined the phrase "Soviet Canuckistan" (which I use below) in 2002 to describe our home and native land.

While that phrase has always made me smile, there are some obvious problems.

For one thing, as we move forward in time, more and more people will have no clue there was once a Soviet Union (the end of history and all that).

The Canuckistan part still has some legs, IMO.

However, with the "new government of Canada," we're not a bunch of over-taxed, pot-possessing, gay-marriage-positive hedonists out to bang 14-year-olds any more. Nope, we are sober family values types who work hard, pay our taxes and play by the rules. So maybe it doesn't fit after all.

I don't often beg for comments, but if somebody -- anybody -- has a more au courant idea for an amusing replacement for Soviet Canuckistan, I really, really want to hear from you.

There may even be a prize involved. I'm thinking a really cheap keychain with some sort of Toronto motif (if you've walked Yonge St. between Gerrard and Dundas, you know what I mean). But don't think about the material reward; think of the exposure.