David Mainse’s royal pain
The religious right’s time machine, once calibrated to take us back to the golden age of the 1950s, has apparently been reset for several decades earlier — to sometime before the 1931 Statute of Westminster foolishly granted legislative autonomy to our...Critique Ralph Klein, in 10 words or less
Greg nails it at Sinister Thoughts: the public system will be like a dragonfly in amber Gorgeous. So the challenge is: who can express the problem with Ralph Klein’s health care approach even more pithily and at least as elegantly?Livingstone on the terrorist attacks
I don’t often reproduce speeches in their entirety, but Ken Livingstone’s statement today is extraordinary, stirring and well worth reading. This was a cowardly attack, which has resulted in injury and loss of life. Our thoughts are with everyone who has...The bicycle is being intensively interrogated at a secure undisclosed location
News item: Bush bruised in bicycle crash OK. But I still say he’s no President Bartlett. Bartlett had the good grace to hit a tree. Bush, on the other hand, took down a cop. A cop. (Word is the police officer suffered only a minor ankle injury, which given...James Hrynyshyn’s Island of Doubt
My one-time Charlatan compadre James Hrynyshyn has headed south of the border, but thanks to the miracle of the Internets, I can still find out what’s going on in that fertile mind of his at Island of Doubt. Given that he told me about peak oil two years ago, I...
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Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
