by Rob Cottingham | May 20, 2005 | Politics
The BC election had three big stories going on, and each one involves a three-letter acronym. The mainstream media only belatedly realized two were stories, and have yet to twig to the third. Acronym One: STV It was only really during the last week of the campaign... by Rob Cottingham | May 19, 2005 | Politics
Lately, I’ve been preoccupied by the astonishing skill of the American right-wing to just brazen their way through breathtaking acts of hypocrisy, pandering and reckless irresponsibility. The strategy, it seems, is to never, never, never back down… or, if... by Rob Cottingham | May 19, 2005 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn
Three kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium A sack of rabid ferrets Herpes A Zing Zing Zingbah pelt A ticket out of this sand-infested dump by Rob Cottingham | May 19, 2005 | Politics
Pity. I had not one, but two tapes of a conversation leaked to me, each from a separate source, purporting to involve a federal Liberal MP and a Conservative MP who will just have to remain nameless. A transcript: So. What brings you here today? I don’t know.... by Rob Cottingham | May 19, 2005 | Politics
There are few people I can think of who would make a better Member of Parliament than Rob Dobrucki, who has just announced that he’s running for the federal NDP nomination in that riding: The treasurer of the Ontario New Democratic Party, and a two-time federal...
