Rob Ford has embarrassed both himself and the city he was elected to serve yet again and again. Recommend this Post
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Politics and its Discontents: A Little Something For The Cinephile
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Ford Nation Probably Thinks This Is Their Idol’s Best Video Performance Yet
You decide. The video was taken early this morning. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Lion In Winter
Like a bloated, aging and wounded lion who realizes his hold over his pride is at an end, Conrad Black is lashing out. Still licking his wounds from lacerations received at the hands of the CBC’s Carol Off, Black used his column in Saturday’s National Post (which as a rule
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Canada’s Sad Devolution
What was once Canada the cool, the country a 1991 Economist cover story called the “post-modern nation-state”, has now devolved into a rightwing hellhole. So says The Guardian in an article entitled Sadly, Rob Ford epitomises what Canada has become. Using Toronto’s Chief Oaf Rob Ford and the hard-right policies
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Good Lord Gets His Comeuppance
Those who, over the years, have grown weary of the pretentious blather of Conrad Black, the lord and baron much put upon by the requirement that he be subject to the same laws that bind mere mortals, may take some delight in the lesson in real journalism given him by
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Some Low-Hanging Fruit
Feeling singularly uninspired this morning, I offer a tidbit of the obvious: ‘Ford Nation,’ that much vaunted segment of the population that stands by their man no matter what, is under-educated and from lower-income backgrounds. Since I am not one of those that the Fords and their right-wing fellow travellers
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On The Perils Of Retirement
As a retiree, I occasionally think that maybe I have too much time on my hands – too much time to follow politics, especially its more sordid aspects which, sadly, seem to define almost all politics today. National, provincial and municipal affairs appear beset with a kind of self-indulgence and
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Hypocrisy Of The Harperites
It is no revelation to state how hypocritical the current Conservative cabal is. However, those tough-on-crime zealots are betraying new depths of their natures by their advocacy of ‘compassionate’, or should I say expedient, treatment of that exemplar of all that is wrong with the right, the disgraced Chief Magistrate
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Ford Saga Continues
I have shamelessly cribbed the following from Montreal Simon. Please check out his commentary on the continuing Toronto soap opera known simply as The Rob Ford Follies. Opener – CBC News Toronto – Mayor Rob Ford… by IdolxMuzic Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: From The Pens Of Editorial Cartoonists
…some Saturday afternoon wisdom: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Thought For The Children
I hope this will be one of my last posts about the Rob Ford soap opera, but that is probably a futile hope, given the rich sociological and political insights that his escapades provide. However, today my thought is not about him or his quite possibly abused and complicit wife
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Medium Of The Moronic
New and long-term members of the Profoundly Stupid Club can rejoice: their mascots, Rob and Doug Ford, the darlings of the dimwitted, the bastions of the benighted, the exemplars of intellectual enfeeblement, will live to fight another day. Sun News, favored by those who like their commentary simple and absolutist,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Stupid Among Us
I was in a rather foul mood yesterday, and I think it was largely attributable to the ongoing spectacle known as Toronto civic politics. Like one sated on too much unhealthy food, I am royally sick of the disruption caused by the crimes and misdemeanours of Rob Ford and his
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This Is Why They Can’t Have Nice Things In Toronto
Watch below as reputed drug dealer Councillor Doug Ford thuggishly engages in some sanctimonious and hypocritical grandstanding in ‘defence’ of his hapless brother: As well, you might want to read Joe Fiorito’s piece in today’s Star on the inanity and hypocrisy of those who still support Rob Ford. Recommend this
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I Have No Shame
Not one to take the high road, I will state the obvious here. Clearly, the Rob Ford bobblehead is not built to scale. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Time For A Break
Recently, as I watched Peter Mansbridge’s One on One interview with former Prime Minister Joe Clark, I was reminded of a time when Canadian politics had more texture, depth, structure and, yes, intelligence. Clark, no fan of Stephen Harper, spoke knowingly of the complexities of politics, both domestically and internationally,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Little Something For Torontonians
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Rather Appropriate, Don’t You Think?
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Uh Oh – The Big Boy’s Mad
One cannot help but wonder if Toronto’s Chief Buffoon, Rob Ford, had been ‘over served’ in some capacity (take your pick of mind/mood altering substances) before making this call to Sun reporter Joe Warmington last night. Recommend this Post
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