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My latest: fuck you, Putin
BOSTON – Down here, the Stars and Stripes are ubiquitous, but there’s nothing new there. It’s America, after all. But there’s another kind of flag to be seen here, now.…
My friend Nel
The first thing I did, after Brian called me to say that Nelson was dead, was to look at the emails and texts we had exchanged. They went back years.…
My latest: the shit is gonna hit the fan over this one, y’all
Yellowstone is stupid. Like: really, really stupid. Like, soap opera stupid. Like, stupid enough that it makes ‘Dallas’ resemble Shakespeare. Also: Yellowstone is stupid for its politics. Which are deeply,…
My latest: I love the smell of the rule of law in the morning
If there’s dust, it ain’t settling. The dust stirred up by the FBI’s visit to Donald Trump’s Florida compound, that is. The Right is apoplectic and the Left is ecstatic.…
My latest: the gods of the Hammer
The gods of the Hammer. That’s what we called Teenage Head, who were probably the greatest rock band – and certainly the greatest punk band – Canada has ever produced.…
My latest: we’re all in Kansas evermore
We’re not in Kansas anymore. But actually, we kind of are. Let us explain. The famous line above, of course, was uttered by Judy Garland’s Dorothy character in the seminal…
My latest: Some “rage. Some “machine.”
Rage Against The Machine. Okay, fine. But where was the rage? In particular: who is the machine? So, Rage Against The Machine is playing across Canada this Summer – Vancouver,…
My latest: inflation, causation
Why is it so much more expensive to live? And, yes, we all know inflation is the highest it’s been in four decades – and, yes, we know that the…
KINSELLACAST 219: Lilley, Agar, Mraz on fist bumps and fisticuffs – plus GBV, Tacocat, Colleen Green
My latest: JC, come back
Where have the political leaders gone? The federal ones, that is. The national ones. The ones who are supposed to be leading this country, and other countries. National leadership —…
My latest: the Tories disqualify themselves
“Governments defeat themselves,” said my boss Jean Chretien, and we all nodded. Pause. “But nobody is as good at defeating themselves as the Tories!” And we all laughed. Because it’s…