January 2012
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Why I'm Endorsing Brian Topp as the Next Leader of...
I’ve been a New Democrat since I was 15.
It had started years earlier. Watching images of American warplanes reign hellfire on Iraq in the early days of the 2003 invasion, something inside of me started to shift. I wasn’t even 13, yet I still sat in front of the painful images on CNN, outraged.
Now, I don’t want to get into my life story here. Suffice it to say, that I was...
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Goddamit, America, You're Scaring Us.
(Original photo: Phelan Ebenehack / Reuters)
Hey, America, cut it out.
When this GOP primary race started out, we all just figured ‘They’ll do their crazy dance, then end up going with the boring guy’ like you did with John McCain a few years ago. We had some laughs, you got a boring moderate white dude - everyone’s happy.
No, this time, you spurned your great white...
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Mining For Good Policy in the NDP Leadership Race
Paul Dewar tells reporters about the fish he just caught. Just don’t ask him about policy.
Via the Canadian Press
This week, I was offered a curious thought.
The thought goes that this NDP leadership race ought not introduce any new policy, and rather it should focus itself on who is best able to lead the party to victory.
It’s a valid thought, no doubt, and it makes a lot of...
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Dear Quebec: Make Up Your Damn Mind.
Quebec, we need to talk.
Last spring you brought in the ‘Orange Wave’ that pulled the Bloc out to sea and violently drowned them. Then, you welcomed Francois Legault with open arms and together you CAQ-blocked the Péquistes. Now, a floundering Gérald Tremblay is doing a morose victory lap on his tenth year as mayor of Montreal, just waiting to get pounded by Richard Bergeron or Louise Harel....
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On: Getting Blatch'd, Inspiring Ire and the Thomas...
Well, dear readers, if you’ve read more than one post here, you know that I have a penchant for snark.
I’ve come across a few, such as some in the Rabble crowd, are no big fans of my acid tongue.
My mother has also expressed concern at my salty language.
But that comes with the territory. I wouldn’t be happy unless I were pissing people off.
And, much to my surprise, the...