In Tuesday’s Sun: passion before reason
Following tragedy, offering one’s “thoughts and prayers” on social media is commonplace. People now do it in a ritualized fashion whenever bad things happen. After the murders in Boston last…
Musings
Canada tops CNN news
…but not in a way that any of us would like, of course. This one is a bit close to home, as my Mom is on that train run regularly.
In today’s Hill Times: is the federal NDP doomed?
Quote: “There’s very little vote that I can see that will bleed from Harper to Trudeau. But, from Mulcair to Trudeau, there will be plenty of voters shifting allegiance. The…
Dumb commentary in more than 140 characters
Really? Except: The attack ads are working. Twitter “teaches” nothing; mostly, teachers do. Obama lost the gun control vote. Question Period changes nothing. Twitter circulated an avalanche of false information…
Relationship Spring cleaning
Apropos of the season, I’ve been tossing out a few “friends.” I do this periodically. Out they go to the blue bin, like old magazines. Bye-bye. A couple full-on lied…
In Sunday’s Sun: the anti-Trudeau ads will work. Sorry.
What’s amazing about the Conservative Party’s Justin Trudeau advertising isn’t their content, or their tone, or their mere existence. Some of us predicted (a) the anti-Trudeau attacks were coming and…
Wherein the Boston Globe pays rather too much attention to “root causes”
Will Mr. Harper now be condemning the Boston newspaper – as well as Mr. Obama, who said we now need to know the “how and why”?
Escaping Auschwitz
Read this.
Ross Landry is liar
“It has become apparent that our laws have not kept pace with the world we live in,” said Landry in a release. Oh, really? So, the fact that she was…
The Beslan massacre, and the Chechen terrorists
On the day in 2004 that it happened, I was in Kennebunk, getting some stuff at Meserve’s. We all watched it on the TV they had there. One of the…
Pollster wars, with bonus B.C. election factoid
Graves fires back at Bricker, here. It’s like an old-fashioned literary war, except using quantitative data! Personally, I’d like to hear from the B.C. Liberal’s top-secret pollster and advisor –…
Boston and the media
I’m finding a lot of the reporting on what’s been happening in Boston pretty bad – lots errors, lots of speculation and rumours. The news media need to take a…
It’s gonna be tough
On all sides, too. Good luck to all the good ones.
Indie rant: my God, I so agree with this statement
Quote: “I’m so exhausted by this generation of watered-down, vaguely 60’s or vaguely folk, mid-tempo, non-offensive, cutesy indie music. When I was 16 or 22 I wanted to break shit.…
Breaking: CNN defends Rush to the world
Here. Personally, I’ve never been a huge fan, but what resident of Canuckistan cannot be proud of the trio’s achievement? Thusly, in the words of the Bard, Peart: We are…
Pinball wizard
And I am, by the way. Didn’t know that about me, did you? When the other kids were playing Pong and its succedents, Your Humble Narrator was whiling away the…
Strengths and weaknesses
The ever-charming Bea Vongduangchanh of the Hill Times asked me to assess the various federal parties’ strength and weaknesses, for next week’s paper. I decided to share them with you,…
There’s something wrong in Nova Scotia
“Support the boys.” That’s what a flyer says that is being distributed in and around Halifax this week. “Support the boys” who gang raped Rehtaeh Parsons when she was just…
Boston: when silence improves the debate
Harper looks bad for recklessly politicizing a terrible tragedy. Trudeau looks bad for being completely out of his depth. Advantage: Mulcair, for knowing when to keep his mouth shut.