We get letters

This is my latest favourite.  Totally awesome.

HOW ABOUT COMMENTING ON THE FAMOUS PHOTO OF DRAFT DODGING PIERRE ELLIOT TRUDEAU RIDING HIS MOTORCYCLE IN QUEBEC WITH HIS GERMAN HELMET ON CLAIMING THE WAR WAS NOT CANADAS CONCERN ALSO HOW ABOUT A COMMENT ON HOW COME JEAN CHRETIEN WAS LISTED IN FORBES MAGAZINE WITH A LISTED FORTUNE OF 3.4 BILLION YES BILLION DOLLARS THERE IS NOW NO LISTING SHOWN FOR HIM GUESS THE LIBERALS DIDNT WANT THAT TO GET OUT SO HOW ABOUT SHOWING SOME GUTS AND COMMENTING ON THIS DARE YOU R.L.BENT


Toronto Star: pour gas on yourself in public (again)! It’ll help us sell papers!

Maybe it’s just my twisted sense of humour, but I found this tweet to be the dumbest (and funniest) I’ve seen since, well, the last stupid tweet (there’s plenty).

My questions:

  1. If a photo got someone fired, why would they want to share it again with anyone?
  2. Why would they want to share it with a newspaper, who may republish it, and get that person fired again?
  3. Am I missing something? Next up: send us a copy of your criminal record, so we can put it in the paper! It’ll be fun! Wheeee!


In today’s Sun after all: goodbye Charlie Brown

With his intention to rob Canadian seniors of the old age benefits they’ve already paid for, Stephen Harper is in big trouble. But not for the reason you might think.

Politics is all about the effective use of symbols. Ask Jean Chretien or Brian Mulroney, they’ll tell you. Or they’ll show you.

Case study one: Summer 1993. Conservatives have just picked ex-justice minister Kim Campbell to be their leader. Campbell’s brainy, but she also doesn’t take herself too seriously. Earlier, someone circulated a photo in which a coiffed Campbell — bare shouldered — holds her Queen’s Counsel robes in front of her. The photo was republished around the world. One gushing account in Britain’s The Independent carried this headline: “A provocative picture may help Kim Campbell become leader of her country.”

The British paper wasn’t entirely wrong. Soon after her selection as Conservative leader, Campbell became the most popular prime minister in decades.


Horrific

I can’t recall, in all my years, a traffic accident taking so many lives.  This is just horrible.  Say a prayer for those left behind.