Tag: Musings
Warren Kinsella: If you watch anything today, watch this
The Premier of Manitoba. And this is so, so powerful. Amazing. “If you don’t think COVID is real, right now, you are an idiot…I’m the guy who’s stealing Christmas to keep you safe…you don’t need to like me, I hope in years to come, you might respect me.” MB Premier
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #TBT: the Hot Nasties, 1977
TBT: super-old shot of Hot Nasties Nuclear Age Kinsella and Ras Pierre Schenk in Calgary in 1977 or so. We don’t heat our practice space, maaaaan!
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: If your government denied you clean water, what would you do?
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller drinks water at a press conference today. Which thousands of the Indigenous people he claims to serve still cannot do.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest in the Sun: the pandemic “process”
A process. That’s what the Deputy Prime Minister calls you getting the vaccine that will keep you from getting sick, or maybe even dying. “A process.” Chrystia Freeland, who is usually much more precise with words than her boss, actually said that this week. Here’s what she also said to
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Twenty years of www.warrenkinsella.com
Twenty years! I don’t know exactly the day, because I didn’t bother to write it down. And the Wayback Machine website isn’t all that precise. But it does indeed seem to be true: www.warrenkinsella.com is 20 years old. For a web site – not a blog! – that seems like
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest in the Sun: the vanishing vaccine
Politics is all about symbols. Ask Jimmy Carter. Remember him? He was one of the very few one-term presidents. Usually, presidents get elected for two terms. It’s pretty hard to be defeated after just one. Carter, a Democrat, was defeated in 1980 by something that happened in 1979. Forty-one years
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Yo-yo Ma is a godlike genius
Just read the interview with him in the New York Times Magazine. He’s just brilliant. Full interview here. Snippet here: Do you think music is fundamentally good? That’s a good question to ask and very hard to answer. It’s as if you’re asking me “Are people fundamentally good?” I don’t
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Gobble gobble
One has a flabby neck, is unattractive, makes unintelligible sounds, and has a very small brain. The other is a turkey. pic.twitter.com/nWavtNMMWf — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 28, 2020
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest in the Sun: the Brits and Americans are getting the vaccine soon – but not you
What if they developed a vaccine — and no Canadians were going to get it? That, incredibly, seems to be the current reality: within days, Canada’s two closest allies — the United States and Britain — are poised to start providing their own citizens with Covid-19 vaccines. And Canada just
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest in the Sun: pandemic politics for poltroons
Donald Trump: you’re fired. And Joe Biden didn’t fire you. The coronavirus did. By voting day, Nov. 3, nearly 60% of Americans disapproved — or strongly disapproved — of Trump’s handling of the pandemic that is killing about a thousand of them every single day. Ask any political consultant: when
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Victory!
(CNN) The General Services Administration has informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from Administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN. The letter is the first step the administration has taken to acknowledge President
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Raw power
The certification of Joe Biden’s massive win is the best thing to come out of Michigan since the Iggy and the Stooges’ first album!
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Pardon me?
Pardon me? No, pardon you! Me on Sun Media, on the real reason Trump is desperate to hold onto power!
Continue readingScripturient: The Cancer Diaries, Part 16
Yesterday, I went for my second bone density scan — aka bone densitometry or dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry — the one that had been planned, but scheduled then delayed twice previously. My first bone scan, like my first CT scan, was done in June, before my surgery. This one was ordered
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