It seems my former arch nemesis from my tenure at the Port Dover Maple Leaf back in last century is still doing what he does best - annoying the hell out of anyone even marginally more progressive than King George III, especially women. I'm sure he will take Antonia's critique to heart - not.
I'm pretty sure this is the same Ian Robinson who was the editor of Maple Leaf's main weekly competitor, the Simcoe Times-- back then he was a right-wing reactionary who delighted in the faux populism of people like Preston Manning and pissing off anyone who's knuckles didn't drag the floor. I seem to recall that when my predessor at the Maple Leaf was more or less run out of town on a rail for suggesting in print that one of the local service clubs' annual blackface minstrel show was an appalling disgrace (this was in the late 80's--the 1980's not the 1880's), Ian was either silent or said something about it being a harmless local tradition.
As long as politics didn't come up, Ian was generally a personable guy when the press gang were out for beers and a lot of us suspected his rabid conservatism was just a contrarian pose. I guess not.
Nice to see that in our ever-changing world, we can still count on some things to stay exactly the same.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Everything old is new again
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4 comments:
Sweet Fanny Flagg, what a load of horse hooey. I suppose we should be thankful that all the unemployable from Ontario head west and foul the air out there.
Mr. Rev. Paperboy, Sir:
I stayed on that page as long as I could. What an asshole. Seems you can tell a lot about how reichwing men think about women, by what they obssess on.
reaches for gravol (A Canadian must to any and all who read such tripe). I keep it in my Coach bag :p
yeah, I still can't believe his wife didn't kick his ass for that pile of shite. Ian was always a bit of a wingnut, but his wife, who worked at the local daily paper way back when, always struck me as a decent person, even if she did turn me down for a job at her paper.
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