What a cruel, mean and ignorant thing for Brad Wall to say
“If you really don’t like the prison food, there’s one way to avoid it, and that’s don’t go to prison."This is what Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall said in response to…
Cathie from Canada
The Christmas gift anyone can give — saying "thanks!"
I usually enjoy reading the various advice columnists around the web, and particularly at this time of year, a lot of the columns are about how difficult it is to…
Donald Trump, coward
What the cowardly Donald Trump and his idiot supporters are now saying about Muslims is no different than what the Nazis were saying about Jews just 80 years ago.Even Dick…
Great line of the day
Iraq War Do-Over: Lance Mannion writes about how the media really really want to cheerlead for another war in the Middle East:It's not just the neo-cons who want a do-over…
Oh Gawd, here comes "Nannygate"!
I expect any minute now some Canadian media will start using the term "Nannygate". The stupid, it burns!As the Globe and Mail editorial rather grudgingly admitted, nobody expects the Trudeaus…
Breaking News: Canadians are not stupid
It will be amazing news to our news pundits, but Canadians are not stupid knee-jerk war-mongering pearl-clutching conservatives.After all the news stories of the last week about how the Paris…
Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t
I expect Trudeau realizes that all of the people who are criticizing him for moving too fast on the Syrian refugee promise would turn on a dime and howl in…
Great line of the day
The Mound of Sound writes about The Moral War and our new wars of the 21st Century: All I’ve garnered out of those studies has led me to formulate a…
Forty years ago the Edmund Fitzgerald was wrecked
Doctor Grumpy in the House: November 10, 1975:
Great line of the day
The Mound of Sound writes about today’s story on how the Harper Cons “politicized” the civil service: The mandarins are running for cover. They failed to stand up to Harper.…
I gotta get my life some writers
Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip, October 29, 2015 on GoComics.com:
How shocking!
I’m shocked SHOCKED that Justin Trudeau hasn’t yet developed a plan for dealing with the Senate — several ex-Liberal Senators are apparently feeling a little miffed that, in the nine…
So what’s our excuse?
Montreal Simon has a great column on The Battle to Liberate Canada and the Betrayal of the MSM where he notes a determined effort on the part of Canadian media…
Great line of the day
Michael Harris at iPolitics reminds us of why Harper really lost: Harper’s downfall, and that of the party he built, had nothing to do with Harper Derangement Syndrome. Nor was…
And so it begins
That didn’t take long, did itBy describing one of Canada’s most prominent and well-respected first nations leaders, Phil Fontaine, as just a pipeline consultant, the Montreal Gazette is already trying…
Justin Bat-Flip
from the Halifax Chronicle HeraldListening to the pundits tonight, I found out that they all knew two months ago that Stephen Harper was going to lose the election. Yep, Harper…
Newspaper endorsements are just another corporate press release
At the end of an election campaign, a newspaper’s endorsement used to mean something. It used to be taken as considered and authoritative judgement by the newspaper’s editorial office about…
There’s no pearl-clutching in baseball
#THIS. Joey Bat Flip.https://t.co/CO59JyFCsa — MLB (@MLB) October 15, 2015 Wasn’t that a party?And its a side-note on the whole thing, really, but illustrative of how Americans think they own…