I’m back from Buffalo – and I got an unlocked iPhone 4! Woooot!
Problem: I can’t switch my Rogers iPhone 3GS SIM card to the shiny new unlocked iPhone 4 – the latter uses a “micro” SIM card, whilst the former doesn’t. Apparently all the iPads (inexplicably) use the micro SIM card, too.
Anyway: anyone got a quick solution? A copy of The War Room shall be yours if it works!
After saying I wouldn’t – after making a big deal about the fact that I wouldn’t – I am in Buffalo, searching vainly for an iPhone 4.
I am pathetic. Comments are open.
Despite the bullshit pinging around in the far-right blogosweird, the fact is that my friend Richard Warman beat Ezra Levant in court this week.
Levant in fact lost his motion outright. Warman obtained an order that Levant has to pay for an independent expert to review a few search terms on Richard’s computer.
All of Ezra’s 15 other production requests were denied and the court said he was on “a fishing expedition.” That’s a quote. And Richard had already agreed to have an expert review the computer, because he has nothing to hide.
Some “win,” Ezra.
Looking for deets on this far-right stalker (it’s been that kind of week – clowns to the far left of me, clowns to the far right, etc.). Real name: Borys Demchuk, in Calgary.
Anyone who can help shall be richly rewarded, please and thank you, at wkinsella@hotmail.com.
From last night’s Global National, link here.
“Rob Ford has an interesting effect on political perception. For example, he makes Sarah Palin seem like a Nobel Prize laureate.”
Oh, and this. My God, I love this. From yetsterday’s Tim Hudak scrum: “I think we’ve seen Rob Ford vault to the lead more than any other candidate because he seems to be speaking out for families in Toronto who have paid more and more in taxes but have seen less in return.”
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“Hurry up! Hurry up! Man oh man, do I ever have the munchies.”
The Etobicoke councillor said he did 50 hours of community service and paid a fine.
And:
And:
No one is saying he’s a drunk-driving, drug-using hypocrite who beats up on people who are smaller than him. No one.
But, sooner or later, someone will, I suspect.
I’m at their Toronto concert with my daughter. Based upon what I have observed tonight, I can now say that punk rock is dead.
You’re welcome.
The census decision reminds me of the national anthem decision, which reminds me of the prorogation decision, which reminds me of…I could go on. Others have.
None of those mistakes, in and of themselves, are things that I can realistically picture Joe and Jane Frontporch angrily debating around the kitchen tables of the nation. Perhaps you can picture Joe sitting up at night, bathed in sweat, and angrily remarking to a worried Jane: “Goddamn! I can’t sleep anymore, because I’m too upset about the fate of the long-form census!” But me, I just don’t see it. I didn’t even know how to spell “prorogation” at the start of 2010.
That’s not to say that the Harper Reformatories didn’t make mistakes with the communication of their census decision, or the anthem one, or prorogation, or whatever. They did. Even Conservatives say so.
So if I’m right, and none of those mistakes was, say, as significant of turning a structural surplus into a massive structural deficit, then why did the census decision get so many people so ticked off?
Because of small shovels, that’s why.
Voters are sophisticated enough to know that as much, or more, can be revealed about someone’s character by the little things as with the big things. They believe that individual governments have virtually no long-term impact on the big files – the stability of economies, markets, regions, and so on. They also believe that the policy differences between the mainstream political parties are largely negligible. (They’re wrong about that, but that’s what they think.)
That’s why they attach importance to the smaller issues, the so-called watercooler stuff. If your neighbour goes to work and makes super-important decisions that affects a company’s bottom line, say, you rarely ever hear about that. But if he empties out his chlorinated pool into your rose bushes, and kills them off, you’ll be muttering about that for a long, long time over the back fences. In the same vein, nobody remembers, particularly, what Nixon and Kennedy debated in that crucial presidential debate in 1960. They do, however, remember how sweaty and swarthy Nixon looked. It suggested to them that he wasn’t trustworthy. It wasn’t fair, or even a big deal, but it was enough to affect the outcome.
The Harper regime, ipso facto, is doing what governments always end up doing: it is busily working away at defeating itself. And, as with the census decision, it’s doing so with the smaller stuff. To wit, Joe Frontporch: “You know, I don’t really care about the census or whatever, but these Harper guys sure are screwing up a lot, these days. I think they need to be taught a lesson.”
Political graves are dug by small shovels. It was ever thus.
Saw Scott Pilgrim Takes On The World with two of my boys last night. Going in, it had pretty much everything against it: my guys insisted we sit in the second row, so my vision was blurry and my neck was hurting before the trailers had concluded; the place was insanely packed with unfortunate tattoo/piercing decisions, due it being that half-price Tuesday night scam, and my well-documented misanthropy was therfore in fullest bloom; and I didn’t know diddley-squat about the movie, or what to expect. Zero, zippo, zilch.
But it was awesome. Awesome, Canada!
Martial arts, punk rock, quirky dialogue and a bizarro plot line: I mean, seriously, what more could you want? Well, how about it being proudly in, around and about Toronto? Now, that takes serious balls.
Anyway, I recommend it highly. It achieves the near-impossible, and makes Toronto cool. For that, it deserves the Order of Canada.
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