Boredom and politics
Here’s the Buzzcocks (who are here in Tee Dot in mere days!) doing their best-ever tune, from the Spiral Scratch EP. Devoto’s vocal was better than Pete’s, but the perfection…
Musings
Liblogs, bye bye, zzzzz
This may have happened months ago, which will tell you how often I check out Liblogs. But it seems to have gone, you know, 86. I think I was on…
Dear Team Tom: IT’S NOT A BLOG FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
I mean, I know you’re all walking on orange clouds these days and whatnot, but get it right, will ya? It’s a WEB SITE.
What goes down can also go up
Much sturm und drang on that Ekos, last Friday. Some of the commentariat commenting is commented on, below. L. Ian MacDonald: As much as the Conservatives should be concerned about…
Kudos to John Tory (twice)
He has reversed his previous position, and thereby done the right thing: John Tory to call for full stop to carding, citing ‘eroded public trust’ Toronto’s mayor tells the Star…
Team Trudeau, working hard for a win
…by Mulcair.
Jesus Sanders
Check out this scientific study: Query: why do conservatives profess to love Jesus, but hate Bernie? Shame on them! Another reason why I have abandoned Hillary and embraced Bernie: his…
“Questionable expense”
Quote: “Two sitting senators – Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu and Colin Kenny – are among nine who the Auditor General plans to refer to the RCMP for a criminal investigation, CTV News…
Images from a recent issue of ‘Your Ward News’
It’s a rag that promotes neo-Naziism, white supremacy, homophobia and pedophilia. And it’s still distributed to tens of thousands of homes in Toronto by Canada Post. Why, Lisa Raitt, John…
About that ad
The one to the left. In case you’re wondering, that space: Was first offered to Team Red, to a very senior person. They said they’d get back. They didn’t. Was…
Inquiries about inquiries
Some of you have asked what I feel about the calls for inquiries arising out of yesterday’s release by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission summary report on the disgrace that…
In this week’s Hill Times: election 2015 is the NDP’s to lose (and they might)
TORONTO — Knowing the precise moment when New Democrat winners were transformed into New Democrat losers isn’t all that simple. Was it when first-place Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow —…
Fred probably doesn’t want a dirty rotten Liberal to say this
…but, in my experience, he’s a good guy. And he’d make a fine MP.
We are the rank
Per the post below about Colter Wall, some of you have messaged me to enquire about the Dils/Rank and File. Here’s one of the best tunes by the latter, to…
Colter Wall: check this guy out
Unbeknownst to many of you, I am a closeted fan of alt-country and related sounds. When in the woods, for instance, all I play is reggae, dub – or, I…
Election 2015, in 140 characters
Campaigns matter, of course, per the cliché. Bien sur. But the picture that is emerging from the last few weeks of polling is distorted. Am I wrong? Am I right?…
You can’t blame this
…on money or the ethnic vote. But, God knows, you can’t stop people who should know better from peddling dangerous fantasies.
My Dad, who died 11 years ago years ago this month
…would have been happy about this day. When he was dying, in fact. He told us to “sue those tobacco companies.” And someone did. In a ruling described as “historic”…
The media on Andre Marin: “the watchdog needs a babysitter”
The Post: Such teenagerish behaviour is not particularly unusual for the veteran watchdog. Indeed, Marin has gotten in a number of public spats on Twitter, which occasionally end with him…