Tag: Musings

About six inches. Quiet type. Anyone know his name?

From the New Republic, a stirring and disturbing statement: Both in content and in context, the official transcripts of Donald Trump’s January phone calls with Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto—which were leaked to The Washington Post and published Thursday—depict a president whose very presence

But now it’s too late, Unpresident: Washington (CNN) Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued grand jury subpoenas related to Donald Trump Jr.’s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower, according to a person familiar with the matter. The subpoena seeks both documents and testimony from people involved

For born unto you in this month was the Warren Child, and he brings you tidings of punk joy.  Details about this weeks-long celebration will be forthcoming shortly. 

Wow. Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown is poised to get a star candidate for next year’s election – Caroline Mulroney. Mulroney, whose father Brian Mulroney was prime minister from 1984 until 1993, announced Wednesday she will seek the Tory nomination in the riding of York-Simcoe She’ll win, and she’ll be

The white supremacist who is running the Disunited States of America wants to abolish affirmative action.  No surprise there. It is a surprise, however, when I sometimes hear this from otherwise-intelligent white people: “Why do we need affirmative action, anyway?  It isn’t fair.” And I always provide them with President

Full disclosure: I hadn’t watched The National in a long time. It was just, well, boring. Sorry, Peter et al.  These changes at The National are therefore smart – and needed. I like that these people are mostly experienced journalists. I like that they will be working out of the

So, there’s this quote in the Rolling Stone paean to Justin Trudeau: “I wanted someone who would be a good foil, and we stumbled upon the scrappy tough-guy senator from an Indigenous community. He fit the bill, and it was a very nice counterpoint,” Mr. Trudeau says in the article.

Holy shit la merde. Roughly half of voters in Toronto — a traditional Liberal stronghold – would cast ballots for the Tories with less than a year to go before Ontarians head to the polls, according to a new public-opinion survey. Among decided and leaning voters, 49 per cent said

I love #USpolitics. pic.twitter.com/uRWpLHayYK — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 31, 2017

Glen Murray, the Ontario minister of the environment, is gone. Some may interpret this as a loss for Kathleen Wynne. It isn’t. It’s awesome. One, I know Glen Murray. I’ve briefly worked with Glen Murray. I don’t like Glen Murray. Neither do a lot of people who are obliged to deal

This is the moment Exene Cervenka said to me: “Better an asshole than a mass-murderer.” @lisakinsella‘s a witness. pic.twitter.com/mdtY08pBkh — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 31, 2017 “What is wrong with these people?” It’s a question you hear quite a bit, in 2017.  Usually – but not always – the question

By a former speechwriter to a Republican president. It’s deadly.  The president’s primary problem as a leader is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive. It’s not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider. It is that he is weak and sniveling. It is that he undermines himself almost daily

For Marky Ramone, Simon Harvey, Ugly Pop, Plague Vendor, Laura Jane Grace, Hillary and Against Me!

Hey, look what was waiting for me upon my return from the West! Book eight – out this Fall on Dundurn!

Coming to iTunes next month!

This headline: “Conservatives say Trudeau’s Rolling Stone cover jeopardizes NAFTA talks“ Is not satire. I thought it was. It wasn’t.  The Conservative Party of Canada is serious. They are seriously saying that NAFTA is jeopardized by Justin Trudeau appearing in…Rolling Stone.  The Conservatives are accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of