Book Review: Best Laid Plans
In honour of our newly fallen government, it is time to review a book on Canadian politics. So I present to you: Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis. This book is hot right now, and by hot I mean Canadian hot, so there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of it. The story behind the book is actually pretty cool. The author, Terry Fallis, couldn’t get his book published. He still thought the book was awesome, so figured he’d screw the publishing companies, and he recorded each chapter as a pod cast. When he got a good responce, he published it himself. A few years later it picked up an award and won the CBC’s annual Canada Reads contest. Now it has a sequel. Good for Terry Fallis, right? Good for him to...
Read MoreAAHHHHH PUPPIES!!!!!
So nothing has happened in politics recently (well, obviously something happened, but I mean nothing good). Parliaments and Congresses and Diets around the world are still on their extended holidays and everyone is trying to make a virtue of sitting in Tim Hortons (or Dunkin’ Donuts, or Costa Coffee or whatever brand of weak, barely roasted, over-caffeinated sludge your nation proudly embraces as a unique part or their culture) chatting with the locals. I use the word “chatting” lightly, in a way that really means, blowing smoke up your own ass while the next guy tries to get a word in edgewise and then patting yourself on the back for the meaningful connection you just made. Jack Layton knows what I’m talking...
Read MoreBest of 2010: Jack Layton Cock-Blocks me at Gretzky’s, Proceeds to Be Attention Whore
At this most festive time of year, when we all return to the bosom of our family to celebrate the holidays, a time of giving and receiving, where we are expected to eat, drink and be merry, to ing and to laugh, it would seem remiss of me not to remind my public (both of you) of the year we’ve had in politics. Yes, you may say that between war, corruption, a terrible economy, environmental disasters, famine, disease and the Republicans, we have little to remember fondly from 2010 but to these people I say… you’re probably right. Some of the awful shit that happened, however, had its upside. Much of 2010 was pretty amusing…. you know, from the perspective of a cynical bitch who thinks the best political...
Read MoreMusic: The Refuge of Egomanical Political Sludge UPDATE!!
On Wednesday, I came across an article in the Toronto Star with that opened with this sentence: Stephen Harper as Mick Jagger? Naturally I could not finish the article right there, but after I ran to the washroom, heaved into the toilet bowl, spat a few times, flushed, blew my noise, walked to the grocery store, purchased a bottle of Gatorade, replaced the electrolytes in my body and took to my bed for several days, I managed to read the rest. Recently the Conservative Party of Canada held a Christmas party which the Rt. Honourable Stephen Harper chose to hijack with his fat, middle-aged insecurity. In an attempt to prove he’s “cool” and “normal” and “breathing” and not “a crusty scab of a human being” our PM had...
Read MoreRob Ford Reminds Us That He’s Not the Most Vile Blowhard to Ever Walk the Streets of Toronto
Considering that politics these days more closely resembles Kabuki theatre then any sort of job that requires patience and critical thinking, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Don Cherry was invited to City Hall to make a speech about Toronto’s brand new major. Thus begins the second act of the serial drama The Assassination of Public Dignity by the Creature Robert Ford. For those of you who are not so priveldged as to live in Canada, the smuggest country that was ever cripplingly insecure, let me explain the awesome star power of one Don Cherry. Once upon a time, a poor boy from Kingston played defence for the Windsor Spitfires, a small and feisty team in the Ontario Hockey League. Young Don dreamed of being in the NHL, and...
Read More“Whoever Wrote the Burn Book Probably Didn’t Think Anyone Would Ever See It”
This week, Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks and (depending on who you ask) a noted whistle-blower/moralist/traitor/firebrand/saver of lives/damner of souls/albino dweeb has proved himself to be something else altogether: a master of entertainment. Like a modern day Euripides, Julian Assange has followed up his three part tragedy with a comedy, following up his damning evidence of cruelty and corruption in the Middle East with a warm hearted comedy about a bunch of American diplomats who get together for mojitos and bitch about their wacky friends and co-workers! “The Embassy Cables” is the funniest classified information leak of the season! So Wikileaks pulled a Regina George and taped the U.S state department’s...
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Polonoscopy is a site devoted to political fluff. While I do appreciate that there are important issues out there… with respect… eh… don’t really care. Not here anyway, not now, that is not what Polonoscopy is about. Fluff. It’s all about image and perception in politics. Rather than vote for someone based on a record of public service and commitment to the meaningful issues of the day, wouldn’t you rather vote for someone who’s personality seems similar if only slightly more impressive then your own? Of course, we all would.