Tag: Musings



What do you think? (Also, free journalist insider lingo: they call it “head furniture.”)

Mulcair: serious, competent.  Harper: serious, experienced. Trudeau: young, modern.  Poll here. What do you think will be the ballot question on voting day? What will it be in the Spring? What will it be in the Fall? Be a pundit!

So much for the notion that he wasn’t a jihadist, I guess. Examples of folks getting it wrong here and here and here.

Dear Mr. Mulcair: Your New Democrats, who won’t commit to scrapping C-51 in the unlikely event they ever attain power, are presently attacking the Liberal Party leader for indicating support for the anti-terror law. You and your colleagues are being wilfully obtuse, and shameless hypocrites, too. Here are ten reasons why

Link here. Story here: In my limited experience, one’s political origins originate with the The Four Ps. That is: the Place where one grows up; one’s Parents, or parental equivalents; the Politics of the era; and some memorable Personal event. The Four Ps explain, for the most part, why most

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Russian Leader Flashcards: one not dead, one totally dead. Collect ‘em all!                                                                            

Because mistaking living Russians for dead ones probably trumps what happened to you on your 1979 world tour, big guy.

Very sad.  A great and brilliant champion of human rights.

Apparently the Conservatives and the Liberals are both courting Chief Kettler. I think that’s nuts. How come? Here’s the pro-police Toronto Sun editorial board, no less, calling him “a scrambling man spinning stories. It makes us think he’s hiding something.” Torontoist called his defence of racial profiling “shameful,” and declared that Blair was

So, that court decision, here. The decision is basically incoherent. Fair comment is supposed to be comment, not a statement of fact masquerading as comment, as was the case here. John Baglow, a.k.a. Dr. Dawg, was called a vocal “Taliban supporter.” I’m pretty sure it wasn’t qualified with “in my

I’m sure it makes sense to someone, this “basket of political goods” thing, but it sure doesn’t make sense to me. Anyone else? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

I thought it was outrageous then, and I think it’s even more outrageous now.

There I am down at the bottom, below the dead caribou (aren’t we always?). Photo by Lala, column name by Kate Malloy. “The War Room,” by the by, isn’t just the name of this here bestselling book. It will also be the name of a soon-to-be revealed podcast and TV

[This is an update of a previous entry. It’s needed.] Dear Liberals: In the past couple years, whenever Justin Trudeau has made a bad joke or an ill-considered remark – about Ukrainian protestors, about Chinese dictatorships, about the Boston bombings and root causes, about “whipping out” CF-18s, and so on

The Globe scored a bit of coup, and got former Barack Obama (and former Dalton McGuinty!) advisor David Axelrod to talk to them over the weekend.  He provided some fascinating insights, among them: “We turned him into kind of an announcer for the government rather than a narrator of where

Don’t (a) plead for a call from a respected former Prime Minister (b) promise to keep it confidential (c) then tweet about the call, while (d) making it sound like he called you first. Thus, sent along by a brilliant Liberal strategist friend, this morning:

You’re the incumbent, you’re smart, you’ve got plenty of experience, but you can’t get ahead in the polls. So what do you do? You call for a series of leaders’ debates, that’s what you do.  Stephen Harper, however much he disdains the mainstream media, knows one media truism to be

The passing of Spock – and an imminent move – reminded me of the treasure trove of Star Trek Stuff I own. Among the Trek gems: two original (and authentic) series scripts used by Walter Koenig in Operation Earth and The Cloud Minders. They’re signed by him and other members of the