Most U.S. presidents have been left-handed, did you know that?
Personally, I think lefties should be burned at the stake, like in the good old days. Among other things, it would provide a bit of extra space on public transit in the mornings.
What’s your view? Lefties, we don’t care what you think. (Hey! I sound like Gord Tulk!)
Krista tries to remain poised as my jacket collar goes awry. Terror and chaos ensue.
…we need gun safety laws in this country:
Conservatives dislike differences. They just do.
It’s not conjecture, either. It’s a scientific fact! A bunch of studies have been done on this, and they’re a lot of fun to read, although possibly not for conservatives.
The conservative disdain for differences goes back to the cradle, no less. One celebrated American study found that whiny, insecure kids — you know, the ones who thought (accurately) that all of their classmates hated them, and were continually complaining (inaccurately) about how everyone was mean to them — tended to be conservatives.
The study, which was published in something called The Journal of Research Into Personality, tracked a bunch of Berkeley, Calif.-area kids going back to the 1960s. Two married Berkeley psychology professors, Jack and Jeanne Block, studied more than 100 nursery school kids, relying upon the insights of the teachers who knew them the best.
The Blocks weren’t interested in political orientation, just personality traits. The three- and four-year-olds were rated according to how they behaved, and the Blocks carefully maintained and weighed the data. The kids were surveyed at regular intervals — at ages 4, 5, 7, 11, 14, 18, 23 and, finally, 32. What they found validated the suspicions of every tax-raising, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-piercing, left-wing freak show type — like me — had.
The whiny, paranoid little kids grew up to become conservatives!
Picture courtesy Don Martin of CTV.
Wow. Just wow.
Caption contest! [And be nice. Or as nice as you can be.]
I was at my daughter’s swim meet, and leaving her to watch the Dippers debate would have been a bit weird. So I asked Twitter followers to give me their assessment. Here are some of the best ones.
In this batch, I particularly like Bumstead’s:
And in this batch, I think the winner is Adam, I think:
But the topp (ahem) winner was the irrepressible Stephen Taylor!
Missed this profile while at daughter’s international swim meet (She won! Yay!): the guy who is Don Guy, a heck of a guy. A good guide to Guy, who is often in dis-guise, but has no guile.
The terrible situation in Attawapiskat is, by now, known to many.
Families, children, living in tents and plywood shacks. No running water, no electricity, buckets serving as toilets. Sickness, despair, disease. Mould coating the walls of homes, and winter setting in.
The 1,800 Cree who reside in the remote northern Ontario community are Canadians, but their reserve doesn’t look much like Canada. It looks like something out of medieval times, when life was brutish and short. It shames all of us, in every part of Canada, that children live in conditions like that.
Over the years, I have advised many native bands. I have worked in communities almost as bad as Attawapiskat found in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. I have advised successive governments — Jean Chretien’s, Paul Martin’s and Stephen Harper’s — about dealing with problems which are quite similar to Attawapiskat.
As the father to an aboriginal daughter, I was so proud to do that work, but I cannot tell you that I ever succeeded in what I tried to do.
I was a failure.