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Consider this your War Room Warning, as it were. In next week’s Hill Times column.
Musings
KCCCC Day 39: Election 42 – nuttier than squirrel poop
Nuttier than a fruit cake. Nuttier than a Tim’s Maple Log. Nuttier than a port-a-potty at a peanut festival. Nuttier than a Trump-Palin ticket. NUTTY. That’s how nutty this election…
KCCCC Day 38: is the Conservative campaign in trouble?
The popular consensus seems to be the CPC is doing badly. Candidate controversies, refugee backlash, dropping to third place, and now unhelpful stories like this. It is not a particularly…
We get letters: asterisks added to keep this web site family-friendly!
Name Hymie Email hymie88@hotmail.com Subject White F—– Cuckold Warren Kinsella Cruises Public Washrooms Message Hey Warren, you phony hack!The next time you suck c— in a public washroom and then…
Ontario: Keep It Smutty
You want your kids learning about sex from ThePornDude.com or HardSexTube.com or SpankWire.com? Me neither. And there’s a good reason for that. Yeah, because it’s better that kids learn about…
40 years ago this week
…I met the guy on the left, there, Ras Pierre Schenk. He’d go on to become my best friend, among other things (eg., we were the biker-jacketed John and Paul…
KCCCC Day 37: and now it begins
The pre-season is over. The phony season is over. Now the game begins. What’s the lay of the land? Well, all the parties have problems. All of them have opportunities.…
Better call Kory!
A day that includes mea culpas about jokes about ejaculation, erections, and multiple uses of the word “retard” – along with a plumber who pee-pees in coffee mugs. At least…
Just watch me
This true? If so, watch out. (Seriously: in the US, you could run an entire election campaign on a slip-up like this.)
KCCCC Day 36: Three things
The Hill Times has a nice notice about The Wedding of the Century™ in today’s paper: They contacted us to ask for details. Here’s what they published: A couple things…
KCCCC Day 35: 19,000 followers!
Take that, Messrs. Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau! I’m in your rear view mirror, now!
Two weeks ago, right about now
I was getting married to my best friend in Kennebunkport. Two weeks later, I’m out on a canoe in Northern Ontario somewhere, with Son 3. As Son 3 said: “Dad,…
KCCCC Day 34: when a newspaper gets a big story wrong in a big way, what should it do?
Look, I’m up at the cabin with Son 3. It’s a long weekend. It’s amazing here. I’m making him a big bacon and egg and toast breakfast and then we…
KCCCC Day 33: can a refugee crisis change the course of an election campaign?
First things first. Lots of commentary this morning on the issue of refugees and immigrants, for very good reasons. Lots of the commentary seems to be steeped in emotion, however,…
Should that NDP MP resign?
If this is true – if, contrary to what he claimed to the media, no application at all was made on the family of that boy – he should resign.…
And the psycho tweet of the day award goes to…
No surprise, either. This one has been a few fries short of a Happy Meal for a long time. Alternative version: “I will show my outrage about the plight of…
KCCCC Day 32: the power of images
Words are about information. Pictures are about emotion. Emotion equals power. Print folks – the ones who pour their souls into writing newspapers and magazines, the ones who craft profound…
KCCCC Day 31: it’s the economy, duh
It’s the economy, stupid, per Carville. And the economy looks not so good, this morning. See assorted pundits here and here and here and here. Worrying news stories here and…
The Hot Nasties! The Secret of Immortality!
The one Maine Sessions Hot Nasties video that wasn’t posted – the song that Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham wants played at his funeral. As no less than Damian has noted,…