Musings
Lucida Sans Unicode, the final frontier
How weird am I? This weird: the most interesting thing I’ve read in weeks is an analysis of the fonts used in Blade Runner. Story here. The subtitle reads WORLD WIDE…
Hung out with Against Me after our boy’s graduation
Which made it more perfect.
The graduate
He doesn’t quite look like this, tonight, as he graduates from high school – honour roll, Ontario scholar, all that. Got an offer and scholarship from every single university he…
The Fourth Estate, the State, and Grattan O’Leary
From Bruce Cheadle at Canadian Press: OTTAWA—The federal Liberal government has enlisted the independent Public Policy Forum to assess the state of Canada’s struggling news industry as it mulls over…
The Truth is irrelevant
Quote from a fascinating Washington Post piece on Trump’s Muslim-hating strategy: He said it doesn’t matter that isn’t true. “It’s not about that,” he said. “Look, it’s an analogy.” The…
In this week’s Hill Times: stop letting evil/crazy people get guns, for starters
Could Orlando have happened here? Well, we’ve got our share of Islamic terrorists here, of course: the attack on Parliament Hill, and several other attacks in the past decade, have…
It wasn’t the medium, per McLuhan, it was the message
Doesn’t anyone get that? No? Here, take a quiz: It isn’t whether your paid is online or on TV or on whatever, boys and girls. It’s what you say, and…
When you fire your campaign manager mid-campaign
It’s never usually good. I was there on the national Liberal campaign in 1984 when John Turner did it to Bill Lee, and replaced him with Keith Davey. Senator Davey…
Donald Trump, the conservative-killer
This is so awesome. Keep at it, you fatuous douchebag!
Best father-son song of all time
Always makes me think of mine, gone 12 years now. Life goes fast, men. Grab it.
Trudeau’s first Parliamentary session
It was bumpy. They’re a new government, and they often looked like it. C-14, in particular, was not their finest hour. At different points, it was: The elbowgate thing, which…
My view on father’s day
Not bad. That’s Son Four on the left, on the move for True North.
Adler-Kinsella Show: euthanasia, terror, and a Dad
https://m.soundcloud.com/charlesadlersxm/adler-kinsella-16-06-16
From next week’s column, in which I refer to men with small penises and big guns
Quote: “Here, unlike down there, we do not make it easy for Islamic extremists, or haters, or the mentally ill, to get guns. Here in Canada, unlike in the United…
‘Donald Trump Is An Asshole’ passes 4,000 views!
Four thousand SFH fans can’t be all wrong – especially after this week. Click on the link, sing along!
Kesshole
Is this for real? Apparently it is. And, even if it isn’t, it could be, which should tell you all you need to know about this jerk. Story linked under…
In this week’s Hill Times: on death and dying
Some of us aren’t enthusiastic about assisted dying. Although, in the case of the Senate, we will happily make an exception, and assist. The Senate – that undemocratic, unaccountable, unwanted…