He calls it the 98 per cent, but the message is the same: the rich should pay more.  Ironically, I spent part of this week interviewing Occupiers at the last Occupy encampment in Canada, in Harbourfront Park in St. John’s.  Their message, too, is all about the 99 per cent – that a minority control have a major share, while the majority are left with a minority of the wealth.

All of this is basically what my next book is about, and I hereby demand that the President give me royalties for stealing my ideas for the SOTU.  It’s why he’s going to win again, after all.

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Rob Ford turns Godwin’s Law upside down, and looks even more moronic than usual.

No one is surprised.

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Sure looks like it.

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And Cathal Kelly is the best sports writer around, once again.

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Would you buy a used house from this woman?

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As you all know, I detest award shows and Hollywood, but I immodestly note that I was right about Hugo, and the Oscars judges are simply following my lead.

You’re welcome.

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John Cummins is right about one thing: BC voters are smart. They won’t be fooled by Christy Clark’s attempts to position herself as a conservative.

In politics, you’re expected to know certain things. Like who you are, for example.

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You’re going to think I’m crazy — or crazier than usual — but hear me out.

In politics, some folks base their advice on polls, focus groups and data. Me, I favour my gut. It generally doesn’t let me down.

For example: Back in the summer of 1990, when I was offered a job by then-opposition leader Jean Chretien, I had quite a few family and friends saying “don’t do it.” I was doing well as a lawyer, they said, and Chretien would never, ever be prime minister.

My head told me they might be right, but my gut said I should go work for the p’tit gars de Shawinigan. As things turned out, I never hesitate to tell my relations and friends, Chretien kind of did all right, didn’t he?

Which brings me, in a typically circuitous fashion, to a Toronto boardroom in the fall of 2008, a few weeks before Michael Ignatieff would become leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Gathered in the Yorkville boardroom was Ignatieff’s charming wife, plus most of his senior advisers. I was the only one wearing a T-shirt (an Obama T-shirt, incidentally).

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