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So close and yet so far

Nice try, Steve. I know you planned your election so that it would come before the economy tanked, since voters inevitably blame recessions on whoever’s in ...

Debate, débat

My doctor suggested weaning myself off political news by using the Patch method of lining my socks with newspapers, thus absorbing reduced amounts of platitu...

Watching the “debate”

I’m listening to the McCain-Obama debate while cleaning up the apartment and waiting for Sh. to get home from a trip. I tried the soft-drug option of just r...

Don’t vote for us, say Greens

I’m sure there was a betting pool in a few back rooms over when this would happen: May has just told people not to vote for her. Or rather, that they should...

Culture en péril

Just saw a great video trashing the Conservative’s cuts to the arts and centralized review of spending, featuring the lead singer of the much-loved Québec ba...