Here’s a magazine cover I thought I’d never see
But I understand why Rolling Stone did it. This guy – as I said to my former Boss last week, a notable progressive leader himself – is the most famous…
Musings
Bowie does Joy Division
Wow. From MS. Wow. Someone you read regularly has these words tattooed on his chest.
Why is the Ontario government placing 800 kids at risk?
Just saw this. Happening in Northumberland – Cobourg, Brighton, all around there – right now, this week. This is outrageous. Eight hundred kids! Where is the Opposition, where is the…
Left-Right political dichotomies
Well-written, but based entirely on a false premise. The only people who believe that Left-Right political analysis matters anymore are journalists and politicos. To your average person – to Joe…
In today’s Hill Times (and tomorrow’s Sun): Mark Adler, the face of Parliamentary irrelevance
Makes you wish we had Ken Dryden again, doesn’t it? Mark Adler, that is. The Conservative York Centre MP was notable only for one thing, before this week. He was…
I tried to think of something warm. This is what I came up with.
I don’t know about you, but the next person who says to me (a) “Is it cold enough for ya?” and/or (b) “This is a real Canadian winter!” is going…
A Raymi the Minx original
Unbeknownst to many, I suspect, she is a very good painter. I purchased the painting below from her some years ago. I have yet to receive it. This is become…
In Sunday’s Sun: when you call someone one of the worst things you can call them
Of all the serious accusations that can be made, calling someone an anti-Semite is among the most serious. What is it? The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington –…
We get letters: a sports fan writes
And he sure is angry! Drop him a note – tell him how you feel about him! Name G Tryon Email trygor@shaw.ca Subject Olympics Meddler Message I’d like to see…
Governments defeat themselves
Yep. It’s a real poll, from a real pollster. And it suggests that Trudeau isn’t particularly doing anything – he’s simply doing a good job of not being Stephen Harper.…
Can you spot the white, millionaire, out-of-touch conservative?
Oh, wait. All of them are. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” ― Oscar Wilde
Ah, yes, John Tory will be a formidable opponent for Ford Nation
Or, er, perhaps not. From the overflowing “Pictures Worth A Thousand Words” file:
When you become a punchline
…when you are a politician, and you become a punchline in a joke – around the world, too – you’re done like dinner. I don’t give a damn what “Forum…
A letter from the Jewish Post and News
Hi Warren, I just wanted to say “hats off to you” for calling a spade a spade when it comes to questioning the way CIJA and all the establishment Jews…
In politics, what isn’t on the program is often as interesting as what is
If you were at the sold-out Jean Chretien tribute on Tuesday night, as we were, you would have heard Kathleen Wynne speak – even though she wasn’t on the program…
All hail the Ditherer-in-Chief
I love this column. “That Chow person is everywhere! Do something, Rosedalian braintrust!” But the part I loved best? After one anonymous source says he’s in, another anonymous source says,…
Is this news story antii-Semitic?
Well, using Harper’s definition of anti-Semitism, it is anti-Semitic to single out this delegation for criticism. So, no one say anything about the homophobes and Islamaphobes and loons who are…
Google Music Timeline: punk world domination is imminent
Well, not entirely. But this cool new Google thingie shows that I was right: traditional rock really does suck, and the weirdo punk/alt stuff I have listened to for decades…
Happy birthday, Boss
The best part wasn’t necessarily at the dinner, but came earlier, when Lala and me gave him this painting my Mom did for his 80th – from all of the…