Their dishonest “president”

— 04.02.2017 01:09 PM

Quite the Los Angeles Times editorial, the first in a series. Read it here.

It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters. The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.”

Still, nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck. Like millions of other Americans, we clung to a slim hope that the new president would turn out to be all noise and bluster, or that the people around him in the White House would act as a check on his worst instincts, or that he would be sobered and transformed by the awesome responsibilities of office. Instead, seventy-some days in — and with about 1,400 to go before his term is completed — it is increasingly clear that those hopes were misplaced.


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Dear #ONPOLI: Seven seats? Seven?

— 03.31.2017 07:42 AM

It’s Forum. It’s early. It’s voodoo seat projection. But:

The poll found not only would the Liberals suffer a crushing defeat in the election, they would also lose official party status.

The poll suggests voters would elect the Progressive Conservatives with a huge majority at 43 per cent support, while the NDP would be the Official Opposition at 28 per cent. The Liberals would be in third place at 19 per cent support.

The Tories would snag 86 seats with the NDP at 29 seats. The Liberals would only manage to snag seven seats. Right now, there are 107 seats at Queen’s Park, but that will rise to 122 seats in the 2018 election. Parties need eight seats to maintain official party status in Ontario.

I’ve got the smartest political commenters around. So, a serious question: if you were Kathleen Wynne, what would you do to fix this? 

Be specific. Be serious. Be strategic. The smartest suggestions will be posted below, soon. 


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Are you gay?

— 03.30.2017 06:31 AM

That’s the question k. d. lang asked Jason Kenney:


She asked it because Kenney had proposed outing Alberta kids. That’s right, kids. Just one of the fiery responses that elicited – plus background – is here.

Is the newly-selected Alberta PC leader gay? I don’t know. Many of us always assumed he was. None of us cared, either. It was his business. It was nobody else’s business. 

I know many – many – politicians who are in the closet. I wish they didn’t feel like they had to be. But, again, it’s their business. 

Jason Kenney made the personal the political when he said what he said. It became important – as lang pithily observed – when Jason Kenney proposed one rule for gay kids, and an entirely different rule for guys like him. You know, like hypocrites do. 

I grew up in Alberta, like Jason Kenney and k. d. lang. The vast majority of my male friends in high school were gay, and I’m not exaggerating. They were all in the closet, in those days, because they all felt they had to be. They had their reasons. 

Jason Kenney may have his reasons, too. It’s his right. But Jason Kenney shouldn’t ever, ever use the law to take away the rights of kids. 

When he tries to do that? Well, that’s when people will start asking Jason Kenney if he is gay, too. 

Because a hypocrite is a hypocrite, gay or straight. 


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X: Recipe for Hate

— 03.29.2017 03:12 PM

…sounds like a Kellie Leitch campaign rally, doesn’t it?

But, no, it’s Dundurn’s page about my new book, found here!

Here’s the cover.  If you are so inclined, you can bookmark it, so you can purchase the thing in paperback and digital download, over and over!  Amazon, too!

Also, I’m get an “X” tat this weekend.  Long story, as it were.

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