It is to state the obvious that politicians and their party apparatchiks are practiced manipulators. They target their demographic, employ experts to craft messages to
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Politics and its Discontents: Whose Her Daddy?
Notwithstanding efforts at misdirection by Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government, it’s clear that she (Caroline Mulroney) is Daddy’s (Doug the Thug) girl: H/t Theo Moudakis Recommend
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Just Who Is Protecting Who?
If you have never seen it, I highly recommend the Netflix documentary series Dirty Money. Of particular interest is the one detailing the massive fraud
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Ontario’s Ongoing Shame
Ontarians are responsible for the election of this buffoon. Ontarians will have to wear this shame for the next four years. H/t The Toronto Star
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Democracy’s Fragility
To be sure, the elevation of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario to government redounds to everyone’s shame. Led by a buffoonish thug, Doug Ford,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: When Disaster Bears Down
I doubt I am alone in assuming that people who ignore mandatory evacuation orders when disaster is impending do so out of either willfulness or
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Nearer My God To Thee
While Donald Trump was yesterday holding forth on Hurricane Florence in a manner that might make even a fourth-grader cringe (“They haven’t seen anything like
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This Says It All
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Kaepernick Effect
I recently wrote a post entitled, The Vindication of Colin Kaepernick, in which I opined on the decision by Nike to use the former NFLer
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Truth In Parody
Last year, the Parody Project produced a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump and his acolytes through a song entitled Confounds the Science. If you haven’t
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: France Has The Right Idea
I am a member of an increasingly endangered and probably peculiarly-regarded minority. I do not have a smartphone. While I am an avid user of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Verbal Tap Dance
Talk, as they say, is cheap. Watch the following clip to see Environment Minister Catherine McKenna further debase its value by her non-answer regarding the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Vindication Of Colin Kaepernick
Colin Kaepernick is someone I admire. As previously noted in this blog, the former NFL player, whose decision to protest police brutality against blacks by
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Pattern We Cannot Ignore
As I write this on the morning of Labour Day, it is already 38 degrees Celsius with the humidex in Southern Ontario, another day of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Some Refreshing Leadership
Now that Canada’s plan to increase its greenhouse gas emissions and further threaten coastal waters has been dealt a massive blow by the Federal Court
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This About Sums It Up
And it begs the question: Is our species really worth saving? Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Please Watch This, Catherine McKenna
As Minister of Environment and Climate Change, I think it is important for you to see what the practice of real integrity, as opposed to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Pray For Jimbo
Apparently, crazed televangelist evangelical Jim Bakker has enemies that are legion. “I don’t dare wear a Trump hat. The evil in this country is so
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: These Are Brave Ladies
When you are young, it is easy to find heroes, people whose daring exploits elicit awe and wonder. When I was a kid, Superman was
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Memo To The Press
As usual, Robert Reich is spot-on in his insights. Here, he offers some solid advice to real journalists on how they should cover Trump: Recommend
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