All about sex
If Sun News Network was still among the living, I’d have several chase producers asking me on today, to talk about the Ontario government’s new sexual education curriculum. Lala and…
Musings
True Twitter story
I tweeted this, so some guy tweeted back this. I read it fast, so I tweeted this. Someone tweeted I was a partisan apologist. When I first read it, I…
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Whither goest thou, Justin, in thy shiny car in the night?
It’s a Kerouac line, adapted for the circumstances. Fits. Lately, I have been peering at this snapshot taken by Eric Grenier, like someone does when they are lost, and they…
Elijah
For reasons of September 9, 2011, I have found this little boy’s story to be very difficult to read about, or hear about. But if you want to help, somehow,…
The Parliamentary fashion item of the season!
Pat Martin, Canada’s own Calvin Klein!
The Loon Lake fire
I don’t get truly outraged very often, but this story truly outrages me. It should outrage you, too. LOON LAKE, Sask. The volunteer fire chief in a Saskatchewan village says…
In Friday’s Sun: not me
I’ve been given up for Lent, you might say. As you may have observed, there is a distinct lack of Warren-ness in this week’s Sun papers. So, too, other folks…
Kill the drummer
Having dispatched more than my fair share over the years, I fully support this effort to kill the drummer. In SFH, both of our are a pain in the ass,…
Throwback Thursday: the Hot Nasties
Ras Pierre Schenk and Nuclear Age Winkie Smith, onstage at Bishop Carroll High School, Calgary, Alberta, June 1979.
ISIS’ plans
This report is consistent with this analysis. Both are highly disturbing, and both suggest that we are at the beginning of a very long struggle. I won’t even bother to…
Un beau jour!
Ce jour, en 1980, Pierre Trudeau a gagné un gouvernement majoritaire, ayant annoncé sa retraite que quelques semaines auparavant. #CDNpoli — Daisy Group (@DaisyGrp) February 18, 2015
Who is going to win the 2015 federal election?
Here’s what the bright Mr. Grenier says on CBC’s web site this morning. But what do you guys think? Last week, Lala and me had a long-overdue dinner with two…
Brockville, Sun News, and holding the elected to account
Ronald Zajac, right here. Read.
Methinks Ms. Hebert knows more than she’s sayin’
Just sayin’. You can (should) read the whole piece. But these bits I found interesting: If anything, Adams’s inclusion on the Trudeau team has more to do with a dogged…
Chris Hedges (and me, via Chris Hedges) on pornography
Finally, someone says what I’ve been labouring to say about pornography for years. Full link is below the quote: BOSTON—“Fifty Shades of Grey,” the book and the movie, is a…
Q: What do you do when a Minister of Justice pronounces on your client’s guilt before trial?
A: If you’re a criminal defence lawyer, you dance a jig, and then skip down to court to secure a mistrial, that’s what! Not sure it's a good idea for…
It is lawful to stop an unjust aggressor
So says no less than Pope Francis, in response to ISIS’ barbaric killing of 27 Egyptian Christians: “The Pope departed from the script of an address on Monday to emphasise…
Happy flag day
When we were home in Calgary, during the NEP, someone burned the flag we had up on the roof. “What should we do?” I asked my Dad, as we stood…
CBC National story on Sun News Network: what’s remarkable
…what’s remarkable isn’t the subject matter, or the fact that it used B-roll of people who left the network almost four years ago, or that I wore a sweater Lala…