Tag: Musings

Landed on a dock chair as Son Two and Son Three and me were trying to figure out how to get cool (there ain’t no AC at the cabin). Amazing, eh? What a beauty. Unless he’s eating you, that is, in which case he’s a mean looking bastard.

If I’m not on it, I’ll be fucking pissed off. Who’s with me?

That’s been my prediction, and I’m sticking with it.  My friend John is in the one Ontario Liberal byelection contest I feel good about. This Ottawa Citizen story, here, suggests why that is so.  If you read it, you will see: John doesn’t hide the fact that he worked for Dalton

I’m at the cabin with Son Two and Son Three – so I was unable to check if Michelle Rempel was again asked what hair products she uses by that jerk Glen McGregor. Anyone hear if he did or not? He has a history, you might say.

Sometimes, in political life, you get credit for what you do. More commonplace are those occasions where you get none. Consider, then, Stephen Harper’s newly minted cabinet. Unveiled Monday, the big shuffle brought eight new faces to the cabinet table, many of them women. Considering Harper’s cabinet previously had all

On the dock with Sons Two and Three, after a fun day of water skiin’, swimmin’ and shootin’ (the legal kind). I am happy. Wish you were here!

Cabinet shuffles don’t matter. Not to Joe and Jane Frontporch, they don’t. To real folks, like Joe and Jane, it’s just Ottawa talking about Ottawa. To those who stalk the corridors of power on the Hill, peering at their BlackBerrys, nothing could be more important than a cabinet shuffle. In

…is a group of people of average ignorance.

Who said this, which has been tweaked to make it a bit of challenge: “The annual increase of population in [Canada creates] difficulties of providing for this army of new citizens which grows from year to year and which will finally lead to a catastrophe, unless ways and means are

The Clash – The Clash Generation X – Generation X The Adverts – Crossing the Red Sea X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks The Ramones – The Ramones Eater – The Album The Damned – Damned Damned Damned The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour The Buzzcocks – Another Music In A Different Kitchen

There’d be winning conditions for a new referendum, this suggests: If this wasn’t also happening: More here. Harper, I have long felt, is the best argument for the Part Quebecois’ never-ending drive for separation. Fortunately, Marois has been a useful counter-argument. For now, that is. She has been adept and

Lala and I saw ‘em last night at Lee’s.  Verdict?  They were phoning it in.  None of the great old tunes, few of the newer ones with energy. Lunchbag letdown. This is how they should’ve been!

Here are quotes from statements that Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s “Information and Privacy Commissioner,” made on June 5: “It is difficult to accept that the routine deletion of emails was not in fact an attempt by staff…to avoid transparency and accountability.” And: “The fact that you’re just wiping it all away

Here. Will anyone at the Star listen? Don’t be silly.

The entire premise of her previous hyperventilation and hysteria – that emails had been “deleted” – was false. She, and the Opposition parties, got it wrong. They hadn’t been deleted, at all. Cavoukian and the PCs and NDP owe McGuinty et al. an apology. Personally, if I were them, I’d

My former partner and colleague at McBinch, who is far more judicious in his language than I would have been, assesses the latest legal twist in the Wong saga. He’s nicer to her than I have been. Worth a read, right here. A fine lawyer from a fine firm.

Fun tale about a fun guy. How do I know Howard’s fun? Last time I saw him, he was at an SFH show, selling our merch at the Bovine Sex Club, and grinning from ear to ear. No snob is Levitt. Only advice I’d give him? Get a Jeep like

I tried to be nice. I tried to be polite. Now, they get Mean Angry Warren.

…so says Hydro and others. So, then, why are shops like Mac in Yorkville keeping the doors to their air conditioned premises open in this way? Send along pix of more such firms. This is totally outrageous.

We’re pals, full disclosure, so I am happy to see Adam running. And I meant what I told Global’s Jackson Proskow: the only people who care about most of these so-called scandals, anymore, are the politicos and the media. Real folks just don’t. Adam is a smart guy and a