I dread elections for several reasons, but the main sore point for me is that I end up having to watch old people slander me for a month and a half. Every election, pundits joyously proclaim that my generation isn’t interested in politics, and they cite all sorts of wonderful studies and crow about their […]
Dear Michael, I am upset to hear that you are calling the rape allegations against Julian Assange hooey. While it may be that governments are taking advantage of the claims to discredit him, it is unfair to the women involved in the case to write them off completely, assume that they are lying, or state […]
BOOM! Frum busts in with a haymaker! First Barbara Bush, and now this. David Frum is Canada’s most conservative dude, and even he is raggin’ on Palin. Via Daily Dish.
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Posted 24 November 2010
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If you’re planning on visiting Iraq any time, soon, here are some places in Iraq to avoid. I’ll save you the trouble of looking through it all: you should avoid all of them.
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Posted 23 October 2010
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Dear Angela Merkel, I kinda liked you. You were from the East, a single woman, an underdog in German politics. You were an outsider. Then you had a little trouble with some Turks. Apparently there were a few German citizens that did a little terrorizing in Pakistan. And now, suddenly, you’ve decided that after only […]
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Posted 22 October 2010
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I was listening to some classic anti-Canadian vitriol from Glenn Beck today, and I had to turn it off because it made me so frustrated with the way he seems to so perfectly manipulate his listeners/viewers, and how this tirade must have brought a few more folks into his canuck-hating flock. But after thinking about […]
The Globe and Mail had a piece on the new Canadian Citizenship Guide, including a quote by Historian Margaret Conrad, who had this to say a-boot it: “It’s kind of like a throwback to the 1950s. It’s a tough, manly country with military and sports heroes that are all men.” I thought to myself, that […]
