Your morning moral relativism
If you’re like me, you form judgments based upon a number of variables. You look at the evidence, and you choose. So, you look at the evidence unearthed by the…
Musings
Pennywise!
I can breathe in this world.
Meerkat and Periscope will change politics
Mark my words. My band did a Toronto show on Thursday night. We played live, and we were seen by a respectable number of people as far away as Australia.…
Political foot-in-mouth disease: when is it an accident, and when is it deliberate?
Michael Harris in iPolitics: The odd thing about about this re-run of the Right of the Living Dead in the CPC is that it represents something that Stephen Harper himself…
SFH comes alive!
From left: Davey Snot, Royal Niblet, Steve Deceive and Winkie Smith. Bjorn von Flapjack III? Who cares. We hate him, now. I love Stevie’s Townshend-esque flourish. Classic. Oh, and we…
Headline of 2015 so far
Spotted by the ever-vigilant Michael Slavitch.
In this week’s Hill Times: it’s 2015, not 1939
In May 1939, the ocean liner St. Louis departed Hamburg with nearly 1,000 Jews onboard. They were heading to Cuba, to escape Nazi persecution. When they arrived in Havana, two…
Whistle while you work
Quote: Like a real dog whistle which produces sound at a high frequency that can be heard by canines but not by humans, dog-whistle politics refers to the use of…
Ottawa-based guy chimes in
Quote: Warren Kinsella, another Ottawa-based political strategist and former Special Assistant to Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien agrees. “The NDP never wants the Green party there, the Liberals would prefer…
Moving is worse than…
• Getting kicked in the face by a goat • Leaving a baby on a bus • Having to poop at your friend’s tiny studio apartment • Accidentally drooling while…
Ekos: check out BC and Quebec
It’s just one poll, election is far away, blah blah blah. But if those BC and PQ numbers are right, Harper doesn’t have far to go to secure another majority.…
We get letters: U R going to like ths 1
Our plan is to get Obama to read it on-air.
Decree on religious facing coverings for women
Quote: 31. – That this be the better observed at all times and by all Sisters in every place, we decree that all the Sisters shall so adjust their kerchiefs,…
Teenage Lament
Royal Niblet, currently in Miami, wanted this 1977 Hot Nasties tune to learn the guitar bits. Here it is. The rest of you, carry on as you were. https://web.archive.org/web/20150312144837/http://warrenkinsella.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/21-Teenage-Lament.mp3
From the archives: me on the niqab, hijab and veils, March 2010
The full post: Possible lawbreaker. BR Ignatieff Veil Source: The Canadian Press Mar 27, 2010 3:13 MONTREAL – Michael Ignatieff is weighing in on the Muslim face-covering debate that’s raging…
I don’t recall anyone in caucus objecting to what he said about the niqab
The last elected Liberal leader, that is. Quote: Personally, I have always been a Liberal who opposed the anti-niqab hysteria, as here. I sure don’t recall many other Liberals saying…
Monsignors Friday night!
We could be seeing the Heat beat the Raptors. We could be packing. We could be watching the last House of Cards thing. Instead, we’ll be at The Menzingers, because…
Open letter to America about Hillary
Dear #USpoli: Fact that 60-something has trouble with an email account isn't a scandal IT'S ENDEARING FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. Signed, Everyone — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 11, 2015