Play it again, comrade

Michael Moriarity, while a decent actor, is well known to be a bit squirrelly. He has apparently stopped taking his medication or something and gone full-on, bull-goose, don't-make-eye-contact-as-you-back-away-from-him looney. Here, he has an extended conversation with the voices in his head about why "Casablanca" is communist propaganda and how this explains why the United States is now a communist workers republic.
No, really, he says that and more, oh so much more.

The day the music died

The other guitar player is Lee Atwater, and no, this is not photoshopped. I remember thinking the night I saw the two of them playing together on Letterman, "okay, either the counter-culture is officially dead or someone put acid in this beer."

How to make enemies

I'm guessing the debate this billboard stimulated among working mothers was whether to burn the billboard down first or to leave it until after they had tarred and feathered the idiot who thought putting it up was a good idea.

Why have a Parliament anyways?

Roy MacGregor, while largely acknowledging that Stephen Harper seem to have little but contempt for Parliament, insists that no one but Parliament Hill reporters and opposition MPs much cares about prorogation, which is hard to pronounce and just plain boooooring. Few people care about what Parliament does at the best of times, opines MacGregor, Canadians have "tuned out."

Gee, Roy, should we even bother with having a Parliament? Tell us, is it good for anything?

"What, one panel asked the other night, if there was "a national emergency"? Well, depending on what that may entail - a big snowfall in Toronto? Denmark invading Hans Island? - presumably they would get back to work and do whatever might be necessary.
An argument can be made, on the other hand, that this country runs quite smoothly when Parliament is not in session. Rare indeed is the Canadian political crisis that comes along in summer or over the long Christmas break - or, for that matter, during prorogations.
It can even be suggested that the country runs best under a prime minister who treats it as a part-time job."

"A national emergency in Canada? That's unpossible!"

Yeah, forget that Canada has almost 9% unemployment, that the economy is in dire shape, that we are mired in a pointless war halfway around the world with no end in sight or that the government ordered our military to hand over prisoners to be beaten and tortured - especially that last part. No one cares but a bunch reporters and nerds on the internet!

Besides, burning stick soon come!

MacGregor should stick to what he's good at-- writing about hockey--and leave the political commentary to people that understand that democracy is not a just a minor inconvenience that takes up valuable space in the newspaper that could be used for sports stories.