Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom ghostwriter was Richard Stengel... Our search for an answer must begin with Rick Stengel, a New York journalist who is now President Obama’s undersecretary for public … [Read more...]
SUN’s Brian Lilley picks up my husband’s report: Canada’s $1-billion to Muslim countries that persecute Christians (video)
Here's the original blog post. … [Read more...]
Canada: New proving ground for eco-terrorism — My NEW PJMedia post
Hope you'll check it out: Foreigners think of Canada as a nation untouched by terrorism, and it’s true that we’ve been (mostly) spared the sorts of atrocities experienced … [Read more...]
Somebody actually bought one of those ‘Joe Strummer’ Telecasters
The whole concept seems morbid and … [Read more...]
Remember that legendary interview-disaster with Iggy Pop and Jeanne Beker?
There are two of them. There's one where he's super drunk and hitting on her outside a tent at what I think was either the Police Picnic or Heatwave. The other one is included in this exhaustive look back at MuchMusic, which predated MTV. [Read more...]
Canadian newspaper columnists are mostly male, middle-aged, somehow related to Robert Fulford
BTO to be inducted into Canadian Music Hall of Fame (cuz they weren’t already in there?)
Huh? BONUS: [Read more...]
Since illiterate, delusional fat women have hijacked the word ‘hourglass,’ this is a welcome development
‘Hannibal Lecter isn’t a psychopath, but you might be’
Bastard has my dream job... Leistedt watched 400 movies depicting psychopaths (and “sociopaths”—some distinguish between the two, but there’s no official diagnostic difference) and diagnosed each … [Read more...]
Washington, DC: Designed by a Frenchman. Built on a swamp.
What could go wrong? So it goes in the national sandbox: dynasty, nepotism, simony, and a small, self-absorbed ruling class of no particular merit awarding itself crucial jobs to keep itself in power. How … [Read more...]
Thanks for coming out, Atlantic Monthly!
This guy floats the genius idea that, hey, that "-gate" scandal suffix is getting kind of stale, huh. Which I've been saying for years, … [Read more...]
What I don’t get about the Christie scandal, beside almost everything else
"Retribution" and "punishment" must be seen to be retribution and punishment by their target, or else what's the point. Unless his staffers changed the language on the highway signs to read WE'RE CLOSING THIS BRIDGE TO GET BACK AT JOE BLOW, [Read more...]