Recipe For Hate: a look at the crime scene
My first book in the X Gang series, Recipe For Hate, is up for another award this year – the White Pine Award – and I’m honoured to be considered…
Musings
Trump’s shiny silver ball
From my newest, New Dark Ages, from Dundurn Press. The media may seem to detest Donald Trump – but they remain utterly captivated by him.
Your Ward News update
Getting ready to launch another legal action against the extremists behind that neo-Nazi rag. (Oh, and here’s a useful article I just spotted about James Sears – who Judge Dan…
Ten years? Ten years.
As the new school year begins, I was wondering where I was a decade ago this week. For one thing, I was getting ready to square off in court against…
Why Trump wins
The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and eight seconds in 2013. A drop of about 33 per cent. Trump doesn’t merely understand this. He is this.…
Donald Trump is an asshole and a you-know-what
Is he a motherfucker, too? For sure. He’s an asshole and a motherfucker. Those are just the facts. So, here’s the song my band did about him. It’s catchy. Sing…
Your happy thought for the day
What doesn't kill you makes you weaker and more susceptible to killing next time. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 4, 2019
30,000 Twitter followers can’t be all wrong
…well, actually, they can be. But it is what it is, Twitter-wise.
TRUE TALES OF WARREN IN THE WILD
Lady approaches me at Shiatsu place. SHE: I love your hair! What do you do to hold it up? ME: Pardon? SHE: May I touch it? ME: Um, okay. She…
2018 in review
As the year 2018 closes, it’s time for my customary review of what I wrote. It’s also time to thank every reader for participating, for reading my humble musings, for…
As SFH says, “the problem isn’t Trump, it’s his audience”
Right here. A key characteristic of Trump/Brexit-era conservatives is to say something that exists doesn’t – climate change, migrant suffering, surging racism, moderate Muslims, gun crime, etc. They just call…
G. Stuart Adam, RIP
RIP. So sad to learn of his passing. He was a great teacher at Carleton’s J school, and he encouraged me every step of the way – even (and especially)…
How will I vote in 2019?
Well, if Trump hasn’t killed us all before we get around to voting, this is kind of where I’m at, as 2018 grinds to a close. All pricing subject to…
Shorter version: if the NDP get their act together, Trudeau’s in deep shit
Of course, if my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a bus, too. Full poll here. Negative assessments of the PM’s performance have increased most two high profile areas: climate change…
Qwerkywriter
Lisa gave me one of those cool Bluetooth typewriters, the Qwerkywriter, for Christmas. I’m using it right now. Didn’t know, did you? Basically, it’s a typewriter that connects via Bluetooth…
New Newstalk news for the New Year!
Happy to welcome @kinsellawarren and @lisakinsella to the @NEWSTALK1010 family. We continue to strengthen our commitment to providing the smartest political opinions to our listeners. #topoli #CDNpoli #ONpoli #cdnmedia #uspoli…
Oh, to be young and stupid again
Telltale sign the six kids were having a great time while you slept last night: at least one of them was outside in bare feet.
2018, the good and the bad
While Lisa and all of my kids slept, I sat down at the kitchen table and tried to think of ten good things in 2018, and ten not-so-good things in…