Musings
In Sunday’s Sun: Stanley the Cat, and the year ahead
As he kicks off the 2013 Parliamentary calendar – and as he nears the mid-point in his majority mandate – Prime Minister Stephen Harper has a serene look about him.…
Political staffer profiles
There’s a couple in the papers today – one in the Globe, one by Canadian Press, about Grits and Tories, respectively. What do staffers think about such profiles? They hate…
Rob Ford broke the rules (again)
Just-released audit by a forensic accounting firm: He broke the law again. What will the law do about it? Do date, SFA. But, once again, Ford’s facing the (unlikely) prospect…
What SFH does on Thursday nights
Davey Snot on skins, fresh from court (he’s wearing his barrister’s stuff, no less); the Dimmer Twins (in matching outfits!) on strings. Playing, for the first time ever, ‘TV Show’…
Tweet this. Or, not.
I’m sorry, but the otherwise-intelligent people losing their shit over Twitter having a service interruption is beyond comedic. What did they do before it was invented? More salient: what will…
Let Us Hear Your Voice
Pennywise provides an anthem for the generations. Good God, I love this song.
Raptor shoots self in claw
Ed Davis? Jose Calderon? Calderon, in particular, had become the heart of the Raptors squad in his eight years with the team. To lose him and Davis – who was…
My daughter got accepted to University!
And she is so so so so so happy. Meanwhile, I feel so so so so old.
Crackberried
My apologies to Kady et al., but if the new Berry ditches its USP – the keyboard – it’ll end up ditching lots more customers. I mean, when choosing between…
Uh-oh
…if this guy says something’s good, it always isn’t.
Carville, Matalin out at CNN
Story here. Where you live, in this business, indeed matters. That’s why you see so many Ottawa-based politicos on the shows beaming out of there. It just makes more economic…
Mallick on Bailao
Worth a read. I felt the same way, earlier on in the psychodrama. “Reconnect with myself”? Sheesh.
Mali-strom
Does anyone else feel, as I do, that we are slouching towards war, and that there has been no real debate as to whether that is a good idea or…
In Tuesday’s Sun: is Idle No More no more?
Is Idle No More no more? It certainly looks that way. Despite Monday’s “day of action,” the grassroots First Nations campaign appears to be concluding with a whimper, not a…
Mystery solved! It’s Mark Bourrie!
The flowers, and the nice note, came from Ottawa’s Mark Bourrie, a writer who the National Post’s Jonathan Kay has described, inter alia, as “shrill,” “malicious,” “misguided,” and who has…
How nice!
From the card that came with the flowers, just delivered to the office: “Sorry to see your career die at such a young age. Hopefully interesting new challenges await in…
Gomery gauntlet, thrown down
We here at Daisy just paused in a staff meeting to watch NDP leader Andrea Horwath throw down the proverbial gauntlet: call a public inquiry, or else. My view on…
From the wk.com archives
A Twitter friend, Vicki Davidson, has a better memory than I do (at my advanced age, that isn’t difficult). She told me about something I once said, on Global TV,…