What Obama’s election won’t do: Change everything. What it’s already done: Ended 29 years of Bush-Clinton rule. What it might do: Change relations between whites and blacks in the United States. And that might change everything. – Frank Moher
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Mallick vs. Palin. Or is that Feylin?
By Frank Moher It’s hard not to sympathize with the Yanks who are upset with Heather Mallick. The former Globe and Mailer, now writing for cbc.ca, is so resolutely humourless, even when she’s trying to be funny, and so intransigently snooty (she wears white pearls in her website photo, for cripe’s sake), that I too […]
Vote Kennedy
This election, I am not going to shill for one leader or another. What I am going to do is ask my local candidate for his or her plan to affect my quality of life right now. If they start yapping scare tactics about how social programs and preserving the ecosystem will shut down the […]
Let’s not be naive about the Arctic
Stephen Harper is right to speak sternly about Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic despite the fact that no other country has recognized our claim to it. Even in Canada, people say retarded things like “let the Russians have it so that the Americans can’t”. I am gobsmacked by such naivete. As much as the Americans […]
They stand on guard for we
We are so obsessed with the lunatic antics of George Bush that we forget to monitor the more boring yet equally dangerous (at least, to us) actions of our own government. Last month, on Valentines Day, the Canadian and US militaries signed an agreement allowing the armed forces from one nation to support the armed […]
Plumping for the SPP
By guest blogger Alison@Creekside After it became clear that the main result of the Security and Prosperity Partnership meet-up in Montebello was to alert Canadians to the fact that their country’s sovereignty was in deep shit, deep integration’s best friends were unanimous in their tough love advice to the ailing SPP’s enablers. Tom d’Aquino of […]
Canada sucks up to torturers
Ah, well, if Stephane Dion is subject to bouts of thoughtless blithering, at least he isn’t turning Canada into a fartcatcher. Reuters news service reports today that Canada’s foreign ministry has announced that it will remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners are at risk of being tortured. […]
In preparation for the weirdness ahead
Everybody I talk to thinks the same thing: the United States of America is perched at the top of a very long, steep downward turn, economically and politically. And since we get a cold every time our elephantine neighbour to the south sneezes, we might want to prepare for what will happen to us when […]
Not all Black
By Frank Moher Naomi Klein characterized the trial of Conrad Black as class war. Elsewhere it was posited as a case of dueling tax systems (Canadian v. U.S.) or legal systems (ibid.) I’d say, though, it was a broader culture clash than that, between the populist traditions of the United States (of whom prosecutor Patrick […]
When it comes to hate, Imus is an amateur
By Frank Moher So, Don Imus has been fired from both his CBS and MSNBC gigs because he referred to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.” Stupid? Yes. Racist? Certainly. A firing offence? I’d say so. Then again, Rush Limbaugh once told a black caller to “Take that bone out of your nose,” […]
