Breaking: CNN defends Rush to the world

Here.

Personally, I’ve never been a huge fan, but what resident of Canuckistan cannot be proud of the trio’s achievement?

Thusly, in the words of the Bard, Peart:

We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls

Hmmm.

If you wonder what the Hell that means, you’re not alone.


Pinball wizard

And I am, by the way.  Didn’t know that about me, did you?  When the other kids were playing Pong and its succedents, Your Humble Narrator was whiling away the hours with the silver ball.

If any of you cared about me, which you don’t, you’d get me a nice pinball machine.  In the meantime, however, I want to attend this.


Strengths and weaknesses

The ever-charming Bea Vongduangchanh of the Hill Times asked me to assess the various federal parties’ strength and weaknesses, for next week’s paper.  I decided to share them with you, to kick-start endless debate and many hours of pointless speculation.

  • Harper’s strength is he’s a known quantity; his weakness is people are starting to get sick and tired of him and his gang.
  • The NDP’s strength is that they don’t seem all that radical anymore; their weakness is the guy they picked to replace Jack Layton. Picking Mulcair was a huge mistake.  He’s a dud with voters.
  • Trudeau’s strength and weakness, paradoxically, are the same thing:  he’s an unconventional politician, and that’s helped him.  But it’s also his weakness – he says and does things that conventional politicians would never say or do, and those things make people wonder if he has what it takes to be Prime Minister.

There’s something wrong in Nova Scotia

“Support the boys.”

That’s what a flyer says that is being distributed in and around Halifax this week. “Support the boys” who gang raped Rehtaeh Parsons when she was just 15 years old, circulated photos of her being raped, mocked and harassed her in her pain, and who still walk freely in Nova Scotia.

While Rehtaeh is dead.

Anonymous, as Rehtaeh’s Dad Glen Canning pointed out this week – and contrary to what Chris Selley, Dan Gardner, Parker Donham and their ilk have claimed – has done good work in this terrible case, and have helped to apply much-needed pressure on the fools who (for now) hold power in the Halifax Regional School Board, the Crown Attorney’s Office, the Nova Scotia RCMP, and the Dexter government.

I do not have any influence whatsoever over Anonymous (NYPA).  But I am confident they are already at work, attempting to identify whoever published and circulated the flyer about “the boys.”

There is something terribly wrong in Nova Scotia, these days.  And if the authorities cannot be counted on to do something about it, others will.


Wikipedia is a frigging joke

A reader directed me over there to take a look at the page that – for reasons I still do not understand – has been devoted to me.  I don’t believe I merit a Wikipedia page, but whatever.

Per usual, it was rife with errors of spelling, grammar and fact. There were so many factual errors, in fact, it’s hard to know where to start. In addition, someone using a false name has been posting all sorts made-up stuff, most of it defamatory.

So I conducted an experiment. I started deleting the libellous/factually-wrong stuff. It kept getting put back up. This went on for a while.  I then went to Sun News to do some hits.

I’m now back, and the page has been “locked.” Meaning, “Warren Kinsella” can’t make changes to the story told about “Warren Kinsella” – “Warren Kinsella” having been the person most likely to have had the greatest acquaintance with the facts of “Warren Kinsella’s” own life – but some pale, pimple-faced nobody who lives in his mother’s basement can.

Ipso facto, as I have been writing for years, Wikipedia is a joke. Always has been, always will be.