Kormos
I am so sad to learn of his death.
He used to say that he wanted to turn me into a New Democrat. With more guys like him, I’d say, it’d be easy.
He was one in a million, this guy. A huge loss to this province.
Meet the Social Blemishes
[Son Three points at one of the members of Calgary’s first punk band, pictured on my bedroom wall.]
Him: Who’s this guy?
Me: Who do ya think?
Him: You? Ewwwwww!
Me: Don’t worry. I’ll be embarrassing you for many more years to come.
Spent my youth in this place
Ralph Klein was there when I was, lots of times. I didn’t like him as mayor or as Premier. But he was good to drink with.
Anyway, he’s gone, now. The Louis, too. God bless them both.
“Happy” Good Friday? Seriously?
I don’t want to get all holier-than-thou, but the folks who run around saying “Happy Good Friday!” – and there are some, mainly non-Christians or the historically ignorant – sound, you know, dumb.
It’s not happy when an innocent cleric is wrongly convicted, tortured and murdered. That’s the opposite of “happy.”
And that’s why today is also called “Black Friday.” Because it’s, you know, not happy.
If the problem is that fewer people are reading you, would your solution be to give fewer people the ability to read you?
Ha ha ha
John Oakley is a chickenshit: an Internet mystery in ten easy points
Here’s the recap:
2. At 8:30, I went on. I tried to be fair; I said people would forgive him if he came clean. Mid-way through, they brought Doug Ford on. They didn’t tell me they were doing that, but no big deal. They’ve been giving the Fords an uncritical platform for years, and that’s not going to change anytime soon.
4. When I went on their web site, I saw a Doug Ford clip there, but not mine. I then tweeted at them, asking when they would put it up on the Internet.
5. They didn’t respond. Silence.
6. I gave Oakley until this morning. When it still wasn’t up, I wrote an open letter to his show. Other media started to retweet what I wrote.
7. Someone at the Oakley Show hurriedly tweeted the link to the exchange between Doug Ford and I. It was up for a few short minutes.
8. And, as of now, it isn’t. It’s vanished. The tweet containing the Kinsella vs. Ford link is gone. So is the clip. Check for yourself.
9. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Fortunately, I saved a screen cap of the Oakley Show’s tweet, and the link. It’s below.
10. Now that Lent is over, I can swear. The John Oakley Show look like a bunch of chickenshits, here. They look like cowards. Someone pushed back against their loathsome pals, the Fords, and they didn’t like it. Management, or the Fords, or someone, told them to take it down. So they did. They’ve disappeared evidence of it.
Like I say, there can be only one conclusion.
Oakley’s a chickenshit.
The power of the Internet
An open letter to the John Oakley Show
When I agreed to go on your show to discuss Rob Ford’s drinking problem, yesterday morning, you didn’t tell me Doug Ford would be on too.
No matter. When you brought him on, and he immediately started behaving like an idiot, I told him what a few million of us think of him.
I’ve asked you when that exchange was being posted on your web site – after all, you yesterday put up a clip of Doug Ford, but not me. You still have not responded.
Is there something you are afraid of? I’m sure that’s not the case.
Please put up the exchange, so I can share it with folks. They’re interested.
Increasingly, too, they’re also interested in whether you are protecting the Fords from being embarrassed.
Again.
Sincerely,
Warren
Now if I could only become the default answer on Paypal transfer forms
Spotted by the ever-vigilant Steve Ladurantaye. When Sun News Network asked viewers who’d they like to see with their own show, this what the form autofilled:
