More reading – this week a couple of Canuck classics #11 Vinyl Cafe Diaries by Stuart McLean One of the things that has surprised and delighted me in moving back to Canada is the discovery that society at large has discovered and embraced an old favourite of mine.I can remember
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the woodshed: some Valentine’s Day advice
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Continue readingthe woodshed: Let me get this straight…
So, because a tiny, whiny, paranoid minority of Canadian fans of Michelle Bachman found the anonymous mandatory long-form census intrusive and coercive, the Conservatives’ Industry Minister Tony “Gazebos R Us” Clement decided to scrap the whole thing against the advice of just about everyone.And because a small, but very vocal
Continue readingthe woodshed: the chamber of mature, sober second thought
Meet Conservative Senator Irving Gerstein: It’s speculation, but I think it is highly likely that Conservative Senator Irving Gerstein’s report cards from primary school must have included the notations “Has problems sharing” and “Does not play well with others” The so-called house of sober second thought witnessed the kind of
Continue readingthe woodshed: There is a reason Florida has its own tag on FARK
Ah Florida, land of orange blossoms, beaches, golf courses built on gator-filled swamps and the early bird buffet special. Home to Disneyland, retirement paradises and more crazy per capita than any other state in the union except maybe Utah. I’m not sure if it’s too much time in the sun
Continue readingthe woodshed: turning pages
#9 Why Me? by Donald E. WestlakeIs there anything as pleasurable as a midweek day off (especially a Monday?) – sleeping late, getting up to strong coffee, a toasted western, and a Dortmunder novel you haven’t read yet when you have no other plans for the day? I doubt it.
Continue readingthe woodshed: Slobberpocalypse!
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Continue readingthe woodshed: Congratulation Al-Qaida
The overarching goal of any terrorist or revolutionary guerrilla fighter beyond the immediate removal of a given target and the ensuing intimidation is to provoke an overreaction by the authorities, to make things worse not better in the short term, to push them to crack down on civil liberties until
Continue readingthe woodshed: Next from the CPC: senior citizens and ice floes, our new money-saving plan for Canada’s elderly
I really don’t think it is a stretch to say that only a conservative could come up with something this brazenly evil and stupid and then try to sell it as a way to save taxpayers’ money. That it is a member of the Canadian senate proposing it just proves
Continue readingthe woodshed: What we talk about when we talk about conservatives
Never mind all the guff about Ronald Reagan. Reagan was an amiable-seeming father figure who did what his wife and her astrologer and Exxon told him to do. He regularly fell asleep in Cabinet meetings and by the end of his term didn’t know where he was half the time.Richard Nixon,
Continue readingthe woodshed: Midweek reading
Just a couple of things for your midweek read that I happened across: If Rob Ford’s opponents on council were “two steps to the left of Joseph Stalin” as he claims, they would long ago have had him icepicked to death in Mexico or sent to starve to death in
Continue readingthe woodshed: Music worth paying for!
From Tbogg we learn that Bob Dylan has donated the royalties/waived the rights to a whole bunch of his songs for a fundraising album of Dylan covers for Amnesty International. Some samples: Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingthe woodshed: War criminal feels the wrath of American military justice!
That will teach him a lesson! And let the dire fate of marine Staff Sgt. Frank G. Wuterich be an example to every other soldier on the battlefield that the rules of war and human decency must be obeyed.Well, mostly.Unless you get angry because one of your fellow soldiers is
Continue readingthe woodshed: Smug, okay maybe a little, but I think it’s justified
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Continue readingthe woodshed: Trash talking us into war
I think most reasonable people, at least in hindsight, would agree that one of the things the Liberals’ got right under Chretien and Martin was keeping Canada out of the gigantic deadly goat rodeo known as the Iraq War. Remember how in the months that lead up to the invasion
Continue readingthe woodshed: It isn’t your imagination, they really are talking to themselves
The SUN-TV news network was never intended to cover the news, it was intended to make the news. Some might even say make up the news, but what I mean is that the gang of clown-shoed commentators put together by right-wing Quebecor chieftain Pierre Karl Peladeau and former PMO flack
Continue readingthe woodshed: Street curling
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Continue readingthe woodshed: Oh the weather outside is frightful…
and I don’t have a goddamn fireplace to curl up in front of with a good book while it drizzles outside (Rain? in January? in Canada? Are you shitting me? There ought to be a foot-and-a-half of snow outside by now at least, not this filthy mud.) So I decided
Continue readingthe woodshed: readin’ readin’ readin’
#5 The Sister Brothers by Patrick DeWittNot many reviewers can resist comparing The Sister Brothers to the Cohen Brothers’ version of True Grit and not without reason. The dialogue has the same declamatory feel and both works have their own odd sense of humour. It didn’t win the Governor General’s
Continue readingthe woodshed: Another day, another trial balloon
Fresh from launching a trial balloon on reopening the abortion debate that he swears he has no interest in reopening (mainly because it is too handy a chunk of raw meat to dangle in front of the base at fundraising time) Steven Harper sends his legal beagles forth to reopen
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