The Beatles: Songs and Lives
This week I finished re-reading The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz, the best biography I’ve read of the group that defined music, culture, and style in the Sixties: the…
Musings
Publisher, editor of neo-Nazi rag lose appeal
Take a bow, STAMP and Daisy Group! TORONTO – An editor and publisher have lost their appeal of a conviction for promoting hatred against women and Jews. A judge today…
Maxime Bernier spent the night in jail
This is the same Maxime Bernier, by the way, who is suing me for harming his reputation. “What reputation,” you might ask, and it would be a good question.
Musings on Reading Literature
There’s a passage from the novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog (by Muriel Barbery, Europa Editions, 2008, p. 116-117) that so delighted me when I came across it that I…
Dan Lett: Max Bernier, lawbreaker
“The money shot, as it were, is the moment the Mountie tells Maxime Bernier to put his hands behind his back. The earnest leader of the People’s Party of Canada,…
My latest: the haters
Right off the top, let’s all agree not to use his name. The alleged killer of the Muslim family in London, that is. With some crimes, that’s what the criminals…
Victory in PEC: the statue is gone
From the Picton Gazette: “The ‘Holding Court’ statue of Sir John A Macdonald was removed from Picton’s Main Street Tuesday morning and will be placed in storage while municipal staff…
The hypocrites
Every federal leader is silent when Quebec enacts it’s anti-Muslim legislation, and then expect us to listen to their pious speeches after the mass murder of Muslims in London this…
Unpublished Ottawa: Bill 96’s trampling of human rights
#Quebec's Bill-96: Protecting the #French language; Tonight on #UnpublishedTV at 8 pm EDT… https://t.co/bxjt4uT6Ve #cdnpoli #qcpoli Special guests: @kinsellawarren, @DanielWeinsto17, @msandilands and Peter Biro from https://t.co/Ll7jAq9ZyX Hosted by @EdHandMedia, @james_ogrady…
Honoured
One of my paintings finds a home at the cottage of Andrea Douglas, who made a generous donation to charity to get it! Grateful and honoured.
Bobby
Today is the anniversary of losing him. What a different world it would have been.
My latest: when it comes to dead children, a tweet isn’t enough
Slacktivism. They define that as “the practice of supporting a political or social cause by means such as social media or online petitions, characterized as involving very little effort or…
Habs art
My Habs/Jets series painting. It’s working. (North of Swamp College Road, near Bloomfield in PEC.)