Archives for August 2008

My teenaged hero, still kicking against the pricks. … [Read more...]

I wrote the Steyn & Levant bits, while Pete Vere tackled the HRC's gays vs Christians saga. Today Pete shares the music he listened to while writing his chapters. Not sure what Father DeValk or Rev. … [Read more...]

Hmmmm. Will the CJC go after the Post for daring to question those numbers?!?
If everyone who claimed to have been at the Christie Pits race riot actually were, there wouldn't have … [Read more...]

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"Scientologists should be free to believe whatever outrageous UFO nonsense they wish. But I must be free to describe their UFO nonsense in those terms and be free to discourage the overly credulous from believing … [Read more...]

Kate writes: I remember when I was little, my mother never left for church without her best Sunday cleaver tucked into her handbag... … [Read more...]

My favourite libel story concerns the actor, playwright and director, Steven Berkoff. In 1996 Berkoff successfully sued Julie Burchill of the Times after she wrote that Berkoff was "hideously … [Read more...]

And, as usual, it's the evil Fark to the rescue. I'll be laughing about this all day now. … [Read more...]

Rejected sub-head: "But nobody read the paper after they bought it, so nobody knew until the CJC told the National Post..." Although I'm pleased, in a warped sort of way, to see anti-semitism is now considered a problem of … [Read more...]

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Which means that phone calls about the book quickly degenerate (or evolve, if you prefer) into gun talk. If I were an American, I could say that this was a charming illustration of the way the Second Amendment upholds the First, but being a Canadian, I have no Ammendments at all; I expect that … [Read more...]

For once: grand guignol as noun rather than adjective. Peter Lorre plays that rarest of things -- a wimpering sadist. A brilliant doctor, he's obsessed with an actress of the aforementioned … [Read more...]