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Retirement 12 Nov 2010 | 07:08 am
From day one, the tagline of this blog was "resisting the pull of cynicism since 1969." Well, in case it isn't obvious from the few posts I have managed to eke out since early 2009 or so, I've stopped...
Dead sparrows 22 Mar 2010 | 05:21 am
In Dutch, there is a pair of similar expressions: "to make someone happy with a dead sparrow" and "to be happy with a dead sparrow." The first one translates approximately as "to get someone's hopes u...
Pearls from Wells (with one small correction) 29 Sep 2009 | 01:20 am
I am extremely thankful to Paul Wells for his insightful commentary on yesterday's German federal election: The cheap talking point of the next few days in Ottawa will be that Germany just switched fr...
One of several options 6 Dec 2008 | 06:13 am
Was the Governor-General wrong to prorogue? Hell if I know. It seemed like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" sort of situation, and there really was no good choice. Harper should not have aske...
On the backroom 5 Dec 2008 | 03:10 am
Consider this: When people in the same party get together to talk about plans for laws or governance or strategy, we call it a caucus meeting. But when people from different parties do exactly the sam...
We have polling 4 Dec 2008 | 05:40 am
Angus Reid has released polling data about the proposed coalition. Here are their answers to the main three questions: Which of these statements comes closest to your own view? The Conservative party...
I guess they're trying. 3 Dec 2008 | 02:36 am
As you've probably heard by now, there are rallies being planned across Canada, both for and against the proposed coalition. Well, in Edmonton, the "anti" folks are said to be rallying at "Duncan Offi...
And you guys make fun of the U.S. education system? 2 Dec 2008 | 11:50 am
Can you retroactively flunk high school social studies in Canada? Because I'm hereby nominating everybody who refers to a potential coalition government as "overturning the results of the last electi...
Breaking the golden rule 2 Dec 2008 | 04:13 am
The golden rule of leading a minority government: You have to come up with compromises that people outside of your own party will vote for. This is why Harper is going down. In the end, it's not abo...
"Undemocratic?" Oh, that's just precious. 30 Nov 2008 | 02:03 am
From the Canadian Press: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has guaranteed the survival of his minority Conservative government for at least another week and is imploring Canadians to reject what he says i...
