by Rob Cottingham | Apr 17, 2005 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Media Mix
Via Scott Piatkowski, a long-overdue post about CBC Radio’s Promo Girl… … who was outed a little over a month ago by The Globe and Mail — the swine! — as none other than… …Shauna MacDonald, who plays hard-boiled private dick... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 17, 2005 | Politics, Technology
Here’s an account of a conference of American left-wing activists. There are many telling passages, but this one hit home the hardest: There were leaders, all of them older, of extremely prominent liberal interest groups. We’re talking labor,... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 17, 2005 | Communicating, Politics
Here’s a great little term I’d never heard before, courtesy of the Double-Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary: dog whistle politics n. a concealed, coded, or unstated idea, usually divisive or politically dangerous, nevertheless understood by the intended... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 14, 2005 | Politics
Just read Ian King’s Ballotbox Bulldog column this week in Terminal City, where he modest-proposals Lorne Mayencourt’s Safe Streets Act: A new breed of panhandler has cropped up, and they have no respect for the law, especially the Safe Streets Act. These... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 13, 2005 | Everything Else
And we’ll see you in a few days. Update: We couldn’t be happier, Ian – congratulations!
