Categories for Musings
Ann Coulter: Jews, perfect yourself
I haven’t been much interested in getting involved in the predictable debate about this bilious harridan because, well, it’s all so predictable. (Threatening her with the Criminal Code, as a University of Ottawa appartatchik did, is really dumb, by the way. It diminishes the legal significance of real expressions of hate, things like promoting genocide.)
Anyway. I’ve noticed a few commentators – many Jewish – who have defended her, her rights, blah blah blah. In my opinion, these commentators should eyeball this YouTube clip, below; it’s quite revealing. As I tell my Jewish friends all the time: evangelical types don’t profess to support Israel, and Jews, because they respect your beliefs. They do those things because they want to get close enough to you to convert you to Christianity. It’s Scripturally-ordained, even.
Check it out:
Westerberg on Chilton
Question Period, March 21: Recognizing the Honourable member from Whiplash
This morning’s show, wherein Tim attempts to rationalize whiplash-inducing Reformatory flip-flops on Ten Percenters, Internet in libraries, O Canada and womens’ reproductive choice. Strap on your seat belts for this one.
I like that: “Former Chretien advisor.” Has a ring to it.
Mark Linkous, R.I.P.
A fortnight after the fact, while in NYC this week, I heard that Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse had killed himself. He shot himself in the heart on March 6, near a friend’s house.
Linkous’ music was arresting, and shambolic, and attracted the attention of everyone from Tom Waits to Iggy Pop. He struggled with drugs and mental illness for most of his life.
Here’s one of Mark’s better-known tunes, ‘Someday I Will Treat You Good.’ Sleep well.
W@AL: The search for Mrs. Bart continues
Kraft Dinner: the crucial question
As we sit here in a blecchy airport in New Jersey, reflecting on life, it occurs to me that the biggest response a wk.com posting received, in recent years, was about Kraft Dinner.
I ate a lot of it in university; I still do, given that I am completely incapable of (a) cooking and (b) learning how to cook. Besides, one box neatly satisfies one single and solitary person, which I decidedly am.
Anyway. Recently, a young fellow I know in Wales asked me about Kraft Dinner. “Still prefer butter over milk?” he queried.
Yes, I replied. Yes, yes, I do. Of course.
Being a person who is (sort of) interested in the opinions of complete strangers, I decided to extend my Welsh inquisitor’s inquisition to you, Dear Reader. I’m that kind of guy. I’m open to other points of view. (Sort of.)
So, then: when you make KD, do you use lots of butter, like I and other smart people do? Or do you – yuck! – use milk instead?
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Alex Chilton, God-like genius
We were somewhere in NYC last night, people-watching the St. Paddy’s Day partiers (there were plenty, enough to turn the trip to the Carnegie into a faux-Fenian Hellish ordeal), when word came through that Alex Chilton – genius, god, muse to the Mats – had died. Alex Chilton!
Here’s Westerberg, playing the song that bears Alex Chilton’s name. Rest in peace, Big Star.
Take no prisoners
David Olive, one of the best writers around, wonders about me.
Meanwhile, Warren – who doesn’t like anything he has ever written – heads to the Big Apple for St. Patrick’s day. Wonderful.
The interior of the airport-bound cab. Note the timely St. Patrick’s Day display, lower left. Classic.
I have a better idea
…I recommend that Bill Murdoch create a separate country for himself. He can be King, and the rest of us can put up a tall fence so that we don’t have listen to his crazy crap anymore. Randy Hillier, naturally, will apply to emigrate to Murdochland. (We’ll help him pack.)
That, or we can pray that Little Timmy Hudak keeps these Fred and Barney wannabes around, and thereby loses all hope of ever, ever winning back an urban seat!