Kinsella krest kicks
That’s a weird alliteration, I know, but I’m pooped. You get what you pay for, etc. etc. Anyway: my gal Lala is back from Ireland! Very, very happy about that.…
Musings
So much I want to say
But can’t. I’m trying to learn impulse control, but it’s really hard.
In Friday’s Sun: TV killed the radio star (and others, too)
It’s quaint, almost, the notion that other media are more important than television. Watching a CTV helicopter hover over King Street East in Toronto at lunchtime on Wednesday should have…
Big vans outside the Moral High Ground this morning
…looks like the NDP is getting ready to move out. I guess Tom Mulcair’s “very strong desire to keep this confidential” is no longer so “strong.” Thus: Here, Star. Here,…
Ferguson, right now
Spotted by Michael Bolen. Remind you of anything?
In Tuesday’s Sun: hear both sides, or end it
In Latin, it’s called “audi alteram partem.” That is, “hear the other side.” It’s a principle of what is referred to as natural justice. Put simply, natural justice offers citizens…
Eight reasons children of the Seventies should all be dead
This is brilliant. It made me laugh so hard, I fell off my Earth Shoes, knocked over a stack of eight track tapes, and wrecked my Farrah Fawcett poster collection.…
And here we thought LSD wasn’t readily available in China
‘Chick Chick’ (natch) by Chinese pop group Wang Rong Rollin. Wow. Just, wow.
Obama just ensured the next occupant of the White House is a Democrat
American conservatives, like some Canadian conservatives, are apparently unaware that the country is changing under their feet.Obama’s move is a masterstroke, and the following paragraphs demonstrate why: “Republicans are in…
In Friday’s Sun: respect
Canada is more than “a confederation of shopping centres,” Pierre Trudeau once said, decrying the narrow agendas of provincial Premiers. It is more than that. It has to be more…
Mike Nichols, RIP
As my Calgary high co-conspirators Lee G. Hill and Dan Nearing would tell you, The Graduate was always my favourite. RIP, a great visionary.
Dennis Mills in the Globe, on that rumour thing
Mr. Kinsella said in an email Wednesday that a number of senior Liberal party members have urged him to seek a nomination and to run in the 2015 election. Among…
About that rumour: three questions
1. Have some folks suggested I offer myself up as a Liberal candidate in the next federal dust-up? Yep. 2. Am I a candidate for anything yet? Nope. 3. Should…
God Save Justin Trudeau: the fight
I haven’t seen the film, but Ashley Csanady (I love her name, it’s like a Pynchon character’s name) and she has a hilarious review of it, here. Personally, I think…
Why didn’t the NDP’s Craig Scott, a lawyer, report a crime?
Quote: “Craig Scott, a New Democrat MP and former law professor, said to the Liberals that what he was told happened to one of his female colleagues could be defined…
Key factoids about Whitby-Oshawa, plus a handy chart
Conservative folks are sounding pretty cocky, this morning, but they shouldn’t be. They are, after all, the folks who: Saw a two-term Whitby mayor in a tough fight with a…
“I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away”
From Gatsby, natch. Less figuratively, I have been told it will be “very, very vigorous” in my case. Literally, I welcome that.
In Tuesday’s Sun: by-elections don’t matter, except when they do
Everyone knows that (a) election outcomes are notoriously difficult to predict, these days, and that (b) by-election outcomes don’t mean much, if anything. However, those caveats aside, let’s have some…