His powers of expression were remarkable. His politics sucked; they were often despicable, in fact.
Why do so many writers sing his praises? Because they want to be like him. They’re all stuck in the graveyard of broken dreams, and see Hitchens as someone who got out and got rich. They want that.
Now this is a Christmas card. Wow.
And, BTW, did you hear about Peter McKay’s? It’s of Pete waiting for the valet at the Ritz to bring around his helicopter!
What with Time magazine calling protestors the Person of the Year, and the various Arab Springs, and the Occupiers, and so on, this sign seems…right. My sons and I pass it every day on the way to their school, and my eldest boy snapped it. It’s true. True, true, true.
If Peter Kent is a piece of shit, is that a defence?
I’m still enraged by the puppet Speaker’s ruling. When a reader posted this, it made me even madder.
Anyone else knew this?
Carolyn says:
December 14, 2011 at 11:57 am
The firm that did the calling into Cotler’s riding also did $8,198.79 of work for the current Speaker, Andrew Scheer, in the last election. Scheer should have excused himself from making the Privilege decision yesterday because of a conflict of interest!
UPDATE: The CBC, at least, recognizes this is a legitimate (and significant) news story – and doesn’t relegate it to a little-noticed blog, like the Citizen does. Read it here.
Wonderful story about Stephen Harper by my former Carleton journalism classmate. Well worth a read.
Brings to mind a good line I recently heard in a lousy movie: “The Lord judges you for who you are, not who you were.”
I know you all come here for rough political stuff and all that, but tonight I saw the most amazing film with my sons. It was one of the best movies I’ve seen in years.
The trailer doesn’t do it justice, but take my amateur film critic’s word for it: it’s wonderful. You’ll remember it for a long time.
The Speaker finds:
Yet, despite all that, there was no “prima facie” case. Because (a) Cotler continued doing his job and (b) people have read about it in the paper, and will hereafter be “wary.”
That is unmitigated bullshit. To use a hockey analogy: was Cotler supposed to drop to the ice, and stay there until the guy who gave him a head shot was suspended from further play? Will this kind of thuggery stop, now, because a few scolding newspaper editorials were written? It is to laugh.
This ruling was a test of a new Speaker, and he has utterly failed it. There was a reason why the Prime Minister’s Office favoured his candidacy.
And now we’ve seen why. He’s their water boy.
Seeing as how there is an awkward photo in every Toronto paper today, I bring to your attention even more awkward (and sort-of-NSFW) photos. More here. You’re welcome.
