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My God, that man can write. What a giant he is. Newman leaves everyone else behind in the dust.
(Oh, but my counsel to the candidates I’ve advised always remains the same: Peter C. Newman is a journalist, first and foremost. You enter into a room with him and his tape recorder at your peril.)
“Those people”? Which people is he referring to?
No answer will be forthcoming, but it probably doesn’t matter. I now think that Mitt Romney is well and fully done, like dinner. Game, set, match, etc. You can’t write off half the United States of America, and then expect to become president.
Barring some cataclysm that hurts Obama, I’d wager that’s that.
My favouritest sports writer ever, Cathal Kelly, in a typically great column, here. Provocative and informative, like the best columnists are.
Here’s Randy Denley’s pledge to run again as an Ontario PC candidate.
And here’s his employer, the Ottawa Citizen, letting him still write about provincial politics.
I await Glen McGregor’s outraged denunciation with anticipation.
The CAW negotiating team, as seen on CTV’s web site. All guys, all white. If Harper, McGuinty or any other level of government showed up with a senior team as homogeneous as this, they’d get (deservedly) creamed. I’m sure there are women and minorities at CAW, but I sure don’t see them here.
Toronto’s “mayor” is in Chicago today to drum up “business.” Many media are with him to document any pratfalls; Mike Harris and Ernie Eves are there to observe the proceedings, too, in the way that parents cast a watchful eye over troublesome children.
The whole thing reminded me of something, and then I remembered. That’s Rahm on the left, and Rob on the right (natch).
Neil McNeil alumnus John Candy would’ve been a better mayor, though.
In Hegelian terms — you remember The Hegelian Dialectic from first-year poli-sci, don’t you? — the disgusting money fight between greedy multi-millionaire hockey players, and greedy multi-billionaire hockey team owners, is the THESIS. That is, it is one side of the debate.
The ANTITHESIS — the other side of the debate — is found in the Occupy Movement, this week celebrating its one-year anniversary.
Some will say that the Occupy Movement isn’t as active as it was a year ago, and that is perhaps true. But the rich and the powerful are deluding themselves if they think the ideals that motivated the Occupy kids are passe. There is just as much rage that the rich are getting much richer, and that the poor are getting much poorer; that hedge fund managers continue to receive multi-million-dollar bonuses, while average folks lay awake at night, wondering how to pay the hydro bill.
So, that’s the THESIS and the ANTITHESIS: Greed and avarice on one side (the NHL), a pervasive feeling of disgust on the other (Occupy). Action, reaction.
Two polarities which neatly set out one of the great philosophical conflicts of our age: The 99% versus the 1%. How does it all come together to form what German philosopher Georg Hegel called the SYNTHESIS? That is, the thing that resolves the conflict between the two?
An evangelical Christian who must be read:
LeBlanc is of course right. I’ve been of the same view for a long time.
Do folks have a right to run, if they can pony up the relevant fees? Of course. But that doesn’t mean they should.
I admire his determination. Reminds me of me, when I was younger and foolisher.
Having beaten my head against that particular wall for a few years, and with nothing left to show for it, I happily pass the torch to Paul. Good luck to him.
He’ll need it.