Musings
This week’s Sparky: do as I say, not as I do, etc.
This week’s Sparky: Hypocrisy R Us! pic.twitter.com/Hvcur6E3yw — SparkyTheTalkingRat (@RatSparky) June 7, 2020
Lying liars and their lies
Anti-establishment meaning inevitably gets absorbed by the establishment, and it always makes me want to throw up. It’s kind of like when someone who wears blackface tries to get himself…
Anger does not begin to express what I’m feeling right now
On the very same day I could only go see my Mom at a distance – through iron bars, unable to hug her for months – some politicians decided to…
My latest: we’ve been here before
Riots across the country. Dozens of them, every night. Blood all over the streets. Broken glass crunching underfoot. Tear gas and smouldering police cars combining to produce a stench that…
O that we were young again
Here’s a #TBT! Here’s a grainy photo of the Hot Nasties at the Calgary Stampede, 1980, for our last-ever show with Tom and Wayne. There were 2,000 there for us…
Hypocrites come in all nationalities
During an extraordinary time when the world is talking about the virus of racism in the US, various pro-Trudeau bots want me to stop talking about racism here. I won’t.
The twenty-second gap
This was quite the moment. Trudeau was asked outright to comment on Trump calling for military action against protestors and the tear gassing of protestors to make space for a…
Animal kingdom
I have a black lab and a white lab. They don’t fight over their color. pic.twitter.com/G7zDvvMMJO — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 2, 2020
No citizens were tear-gassed to make this photo op. Well, okay, they were, but whatever.
“Anyone know what this object is?” (H/T @marc__nadeau) pic.twitter.com/Ulgpgb88Jf — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 2, 2020
Sparky the Talking Rat: in yesterday walks today
Sparky: in yesterday walks today! pic.twitter.com/RBCpDaPTZH — SparkyTheTalkingRat (@RatSparky) May 31, 2020
Peter MacKay has an ad
I think it needed an editor – it’s about 30 too long. The “sharp end of the Covid stick” was weird writing. A war room is likely going to find…
Twitter gets a backbone
Didn’t see that coming.
Things I can do because I am white
I have privilege as a white person because I can do all of these things without thinking twice about it. I can go birding (#ChristianCooper). I can go jogging (#AmaudArbery).…
Premier Premiers: Ford, Horgan up
Seven-in-ten residents approve of British Columbia’s John Horgan (71%) and Ontario’s Doug Ford (69%). Ford, until now, has never held majority approval since his election – an uptick likely attributable…
A Star is mourned
When I was contemplating a move from Vancouver to Toronto, the Star found out via an editor I knew there. I met with some senior folks at the paper, and…
My latest: celebrate life
So much death. More than 100,000 gone in the United States. Close to 400,000 dead globally. In Canada, more than 6,500 dead, with Quebec accounting for most of that grim…