Dumb.

Dumber.

Brings to mind that old adage of, er, me: the only people who still believe that people look to the media for ethical inspiration are the media.

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We have a candidate for mayor to beat Robo Ford!

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I speak to Mr. Harper, but Mr. Harper does not listen.

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Obama vs. Bush: it’s all here.

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Is this accurate? Jut saw it on Twitter. If so, he’s a goner:

Romney on CNN: “I’m not concerned about the very poor … We will hear from the Democrat Party the plight of the poor”

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As a Stupid Blogger© of some standing, I continue to be amused by the Left Coast’s ongoing campaign to elicit strong reactions from Bob “Not Interim” Rae.

Watch this.

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Son One is finding ways to stay up all night on Internet. Exhausted parents looking for way to jam wireless signals without having to unplug wireless/change passwords every night. Does a simple machine exist to jam signal during bedtime?

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We won! Finally! And against the team that hasn’t lost a game all season!

Son, the goalie, is under that pile-on.  Father, the proud one, took the picture to brag.

(It’s also a souvenir: everyone expects Rob Ford is going to lock out city workers this weekend – which means that hockey, at places like Leaside, is possibly over for the season.)

Rob Ford doesn’t care if my kids get to play hockey for the rest of this season.
We parents are going to make him care.

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Whenever they’re in political trouble, progressives — Liberals and New Democrats in Canada, Democrats in the United States — will say they’d win more if only they communicated better. If only they had a better “narrative,” they say, they’d beat conservatives more often.

So, a young senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, once called for a “new narrative” to wrest power back from conservative Republicans (he got one, and won). Robert Reich, one of Bill Clinton’s smarter guys, lamented that Republican conservatives win all the time because they “have mastered the art of political narrative.”

Up here, you hear a lot of the same sort of kvetching. Shortly after he got his keister kicked in the May 2011 federal election, for instance, Michael Ignatieff told my friend Michael Valpy that he lost because he didn’t “control the narrative.”  

His successor, Bob Rae, said in a big-vision speech at the Economic Club the “populist narrative” of Conservatives has been used to fool lots of folks into voting for Stephen Harper.  

And so on, and so on. These days, then, you hear otherwise smart progressives yammering on and on about “narratives” and “framing” and “branding” and stuff like that.  

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Read it to the end.  You won’t regret that you did.

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