We saw the Menzingers just before Christmas, supporting the Flatliners.  This is the bit of godlike genius they were playing as we tumbled into Sneaky Dee’s. Perfect.

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Holy Christ. I didn’t take that Abacus thing very seriously until I saw this.

Theories? Fixes? Opinions? Comments are open.

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They’re back (they never went away, in fact), and their web site is here. Watch their space, starting tomorrow.

Tim Hudak’s Landowner Party certainly will be.  Enjoy it, Rocco!

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He’s in town, and I’m interviewing him tonight. Here he is ’79, with Link Wray, not long before their parting of ways. ‘The Way I Walk,’ was written by the legendary Jack Scott, of course – pride of Windsor, Ontario.

(BTW: YouTube forced me to link to a Google account before letting me access videos. That’ll cause a shitstorm, I reckon.)

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I’ll be at the game tonight, comme toujours, so I found Feschuk’s wonderfully-written column a great read.

Apart from the fact that Feschuk masterfully provides some insight into a great NBA enigma, it’s also evidence of my belief that sports writing is the funnest to do and read.

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We’ve been calling Timmy Hudak The No Plan Man. Turns out it wasn’t entirely rhetorical. Check out the URL, circled at the top.

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Word is Timmy Hudak has lost yet another senior staffer – his Director of Communications!

But they’ve been doing such a great comms job, too!

Anyway, I think they should hire Rocco. He can do another “Bocce Balls” ad campaign for Timmy! Everyone loved that!

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…that’s what Tim Hudak’s PCs want. What does it mean for you?

• Higher drug prices, in perpetuity, as Big Pharma will win eternal patent protections
• The loss of anti-pollution rules
• The end of new parks and the potential elimination of existing parks
• Elimination of zoning rules designed to prevent neighbourhoods from being ruined – noise bylaws, giant homes, etc.
• Friction with aboriginal peoples, with land claims being overturned and challenged
• Discrimination against women in divorce settlements
• The challenge of labour laws, and potential end to collective bargaining
• The loss of shorelines, and commercialization of public lands

It’s crazy. And it raises the key question: where does Tim Hudak stand?  Is the No Plan Man© now, fully, a hostage of a cabal of lawless rural extremists?

More here and here.

Hillier, the real PC leader, in handcuffs at an OLA protest.

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Oh, snap! Heh.

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Analysis by the pollster who found that:

“Although the survey doesn’t have direct evidence on this point, it is possible that this recoil effect, which is a recurring pattern of the past five years, was magnified by the Bev Oda affair. In a familiar pattern of voter recoil and government missteps, the tantalizing majority of a fortnight ago has evaporated into the narrow rut advantage of the last year. Zap! You’ve been Odasized!”

“Odasized.” I thought that was funny. Good one.

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