Tonight at the Bovine Sex Club, 542 Queen Street West! SFH (finally) releases the greatest album in the history of, er, the last ten minutes: Why Do You Hate Me!  Free album with cost of admission!  And it even features a tune as written from Timmy Hudak’s perspective on his home province!

Debauchery! Depravity! Dissipation! Dissoluteness! La Dolce Vita!  You’ll get it all tonight, folks!  And world-famous rock video director George Vale will be there shooting a vid, and you or  your body parts could be in it!

Come dig our big gig, as Jesse Jackson might say: the very next morning, Ritalin Boy is going in for heart surgery (seriously).  We’re raising money for Heart and Stroke, and we’re raising his spirits, too!  Come say good luck (and, possibly, goodbye) to Ritalin Boy!

And now, here, for the first time ever on the Interweeb, is the WDYHM album cover – click on it to get the download, get merch, and get involved with the hottest musical sensation since Emo and Hair Metal!  It’s worth it! For, as the critics say:

• “[Shit From Hell] is most dead-on accurate band name of all time…” 
• “Drooling delinquents in the bodies of bitter, fat, middle-aged doucherinos…” 
• “Sounding not quite as good as a jet engine sucking a family of raccoons through the intake, but still better than Sum 41.”

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Before he even read the 2012 budget, this is what Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak said:

“[The] PC party cannot support this budget.”

The Ontario NDP, meanwhile, isn’t saying. But every PC trained seal is going to vote against it, Hudak says.

If there is an election – just four months after the last one – it’ll be on the head of the smirking frat boy named Tim Hudak. That’s a promise.

And we’ll win a majority. That, too, is a promise.

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In democratic politics, every leader is a direct response to the leader who immediately preceded them.

Thus, Brian Mulroney’s folksy Irish blarney was a reaction to Pierre Trudeau’s aloof asceticism. Jean Chretien’s populist federalism was an answer to the Mulroney regime’s flirtations with Quebec separatists and corporate elites.

Paul Martin’s government tilted anti-federalist and to the right, in the way that his predecessor Chretien had been an unapologetic federalist and progressive. Stephen Harper’s small-town Canada, hockey-loving, Tim Hortons affectation was deployed effectively, and brilliantly, against Martin’s millions, as well as the two ivory-tower types who followed, Stephane Dion and Michael Ignatieff.

U.S. President Barack Obama was the polar opposite to George W. Bush; Bush could not have been more dissimilar to Bill Clinton; Clinton was completely unlike Bush’s father, George Sr., and so on and so on.

In politics, opposites attract votes. What, then, are we to make of Thomas Mulcair?

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Liberals trying to turn the tables on opposition over Ornge scandal

(Ornge-Opposition) TORONTO – Ontario’s governing Liberals are trying to turn the tables on the opposition parties over the Ornge scandal.

Government house leader John Milloy says both the NDP and Conservatives knew about the changes at Ornge that shielded public money from government oversight.

He says the NDP received a letter in 2010 about the organizational changes that allowed Ornge to create a web of for-profit entities that were owned by its senior officers.

Milloy says the Tories were briefed by Ornge on all of their operations last May.

…Milloy says the opposition didn’t sound the alarm either, despite their recent howls of outrage over Ornge.

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I haven’t said anything about the Ornge file, as I have a personal conflict of interest.  But the stinking hypocrites in the Ontario PCs and true NDP have finally persuaded me to make an exception.  As Ontario Liberal Government House Leader John Milloy just brilliantly pointed out in the Legislature, the deputy leader of the PCs, Christine Elliott, knew all about what was happening over there almost two years ago.  And she did zero, zippo, zilch.

Oh, except for lobbying for an Ornge base in her riding, that is.

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Come to the show Wednesday night at the Bovine!

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I’ll leave the movie reviews to my betters, like Paul Wells.

I’ll only say this: saw it yesterday with Son 3. He loved it, I hated it.

It is basically a movie about children murdering children. That makes it despicable enough. But what makes it worse is that it pretends to disapprove of children murdering children – while simultaneously profiting from precisely that.

It is a disgrace. It will be a huge success.

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Here’s the thing about the NDP.

They suddenly lost their charismatic, talented leader in the summer. They had an interim leader who used to be a card-carrying separatist.
They had a leadership race that was duller than dishwater. They have a caucus bursting at the seams with children, none of whom were expected to get their deposit back, let alone elected. They haven’t said or done anything of significance inside or outside the House of Commons since
May 2011. In fact, they have had a year that has been remarkably unremarkable.

But here’s the thing: As of this week, the pollsters at Environics tell us, they are tied for first place with the governing Conservative party. And their extraordinary victory in last May’s general election, which every pollster and pundit (including this one) regarded as temporary, an anomaly?

Well, it’s increasingly looking like it wasn’t temporary at all.

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They got to where they are because of a guy who was populist and human and kind.

They’ve now elected a guy who is the polar opposite, on all fronts.

Good luck, New Democrats. You’ll need it.

(illustration by Joseph a.)

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