by Rob Cottingham | Oct 28, 2004 | Politics
… but the good people of Surrey–Panorama Ridge have decided to say thanks, but no thanks to Gordon Campbell’s New Era.It wasn’t just that they threw the Liberals out. It was a rout; the Liberals got nearly exactly the same result the NDP did in... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 28, 2004 | Everything Else
Ladies and gentlemen south of the border, try, just try to rouse yourself to head to a polling station after this clarion call from actor Wallace Shawn:”So, you know, for me it’s humiliating to vote for Kerry, because I don’t respect him; but I would... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 27, 2004 | Everything Else
As a Canadian blogger, I hate to be drawn into the American Ann Coulter quagmire. She’s clearly a few verses short of a sonnet (this metaphor brought to you by Random Acts of Poetry Week), and God knows enough other progressives get themselves into a lather over... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 27, 2004 | Media Mix
Oh, how sharper than a serpent’s tooth is the ungratefulness of a lowly employee?The Chicago Sun-Times has reprinted an exchange between Conrad Black and Roger Ebert. The gist of it is unremarkable: Ebert tells his publisher he’ll join his fellow Guild... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 26, 2004 | Politics
…along comes one of these incidents:”[NDP MPP Marilyn] Churley was heckling Health Minister George Smitherman during question period and was asked by Speaker Alvin Curling to settle down when Qaadri yelled out, ‘OK, the hot flash is...