Archive for December, 2010

Cherry of Afghanistan

Monday, December 27th, 2010 by thwap

Many, many, many, other bloggers have already done a fine job of deriding the obnoxious Don Cherry’s nauseating buffoonery in Afghanistan:
The 76-year-old Cherry worked the mostly French-Canadian troops at each stop with the Kandahar version of his long-running Coach’s Corner segment that airs during the first intermission of NHL games.
“Is this your favourite […]

Who Would Manufacture Hysteria For Political Gain?

Saturday, December 18th, 2010 by thwap

Nobody does it like right-wingers and few do it with as much fervid desperation as the harpercons. This isn’t an original observation, I know, but for a few days I’ve been reflecting on the harpercons’ cynical attempts to manufacture anxiety about the crime rate by making people think it’s soaring when statistics show it’s stagnant […]

Overwhelmed

Saturday, December 11th, 2010 by thwap

I’d started a piece that was going to be called “I read the news today, oh boy” which was just going to be a survey of what was in the news recently, but time constraints and the enormity of it all, the sheer weight of things, overwhelmed me.
I still want to mention them, so here […]