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Name Hymie

Email hymie88@hotmail.com

Subject White F—– Cuckold Warren Kinsella Cruises Public Washrooms

Message Hey Warren, you phony hack!The next time you suck c— in a public washroom and then write phony “hate speech” on the door, at least try to write something above the level of a first grader! As an irrelevant, aging, White Libtard F—– Cuckold whose “career” has truly SHRIVELED UP, You realy need to “up” your truly sad con game!

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Date/Time: September 8, 2015 11:48 pm

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UPDATED: A long-time, sharp-eyed reader has identified our correspondent, who is in Edmonton.  He is “Hephaestion,” and he spews hate at Brain Dead Animals and elsewhere.


40 years ago this week

…I met the guy on the left, there, Ras Pierre Schenk. He’d go on to become my best friend, among other things (eg., we were the biker-jacketed John and Paul of the pop-punk powerhouse that was The Hot Nasties, among them).

Forty years! We were both leaning on the wall near the doors St. Bonaventure Junior High in Southeast Calgary one sunny morning in September 1975, and Pierre turned to me.

“Hey kid,” he said.

I looked at him.

“What’s your name?” he asked.

I was reasonably certain he was going to punch me in the face, so I said: “Warren.”

“Mine’s Peter, but my friends call me Pierre,” he said.

So, I started calling him Pierre. And that was that, on the first day of school, forty years ago. Of first days of school, great things are sometimes made.


KCCCC Day 37: and now it begins

  • The pre-season is over. The phony season is over. Now the game begins.
  • What’s the lay of the land? Well, all the parties have problems. All of them have opportunities. There’s good and bad.
  • For the New Democrats, they’re still really strong in Quebec. They’re strong in BC. That’s the good news. The bad news is that they are slipping, pretty much everywhere.
  • For the Liberals, they’ve moved up in important places like Ontario. They’re doing well. But the bad news is that they are still far, far behind in Trudeau’s home province. And he can’t win without Quebec. He can’t.
  • For the Conservatives, they’ve had a bad, bad run – Duffy, refugees, crazy candidates. People seem to want change. But they stil are holding onto their 30 per cent core. It’s rock solid. But it ain’t enough.
  • What do you think, O Reader? Are big changes afoot? Who is winning? Who is losing? Why?

Better call Kory!

A day that includes mea culpas about jokes about ejaculation, erections, and multiple uses of the word “retard” – along with a plumber who pee-pees in coffee mugs. 

At least my pal Tory Kory (and whoever came up with this) has a sense of humour about it all. 

  


KCCCC Day 34: when a newspaper gets a big story wrong in a big way, what should it do?

  

  • Look, I’m up at the cabin with Son 3. It’s a long weekend. It’s amazing here. I’m making him a big bacon and egg and toast breakfast and then we are going to do chores and have fun. So I don’t much care about what is happening in the outside world. 
  • In the outside world, an election is underway. The three main contestants are in a tight race. Anything that happens, however small-time, counts big-time. The politicians – and, in this case, the media – therefore have an obligation to be very, very careful about what they say and do. 
  • The Ottawa Citizen wasn’t careful. Full disclosure: I was their cops and courts reporter. I was a columnist for them. They were good to me, back in the day. But, back in the day, the Citizen wouldn’t have published a lie, on page one, in the middle of a hotly-contested election campaign. 
  • But lie the Citizen did. Or, at the very least, the newspaper was recklessly indifferent to the truth – recklessly indifferent to the obligation it owes its readers – when it plopped a steaming pile of bullshit on its front page. 
  • The facts are now well-known to everyone but the Citizen. One: it said the drowned Syrian boy’s family had applied for refugee status in Canada. Two: it hadn’t. Another family did. Three: it said the boy’s family had been turned down by Canada’s  government – and that, by implication, Canada’s government now had blood in its hands. But that wasn’t true, either, was it? No refugee application had been turned down, because none had been received. 
  • If you don’t believe it, read this. Right here. The Citizen story was “false,” quote unquote. False. 
  • Look, it’s the weekend. I’ve got other things to do. And, yes, I think Chris Alexander has been a terrible minister. I think Mark Holland is going to beat him. I don’t think the Ottawa Citizen owes Alexander, or any government, anything. But that newspaper – which hasn’t published a correction about how it got the biggest story in the world wrong, and about which not one of its columnists and editorialists have admitted they got dramatically wrong – owe an obligation to us, the reader. To tell the truth. To not be reckless. And to admit it when they make a gargantuan mistake. 
  • Will the Citizen admit its huge error? Seriously? Don’t make me fucking laugh. Now, excuse me while I make a little boy some breakfast. 

KCCCC Day 33: can a refugee crisis change the course of an election campaign?