Lament for a notion

From Paul Wells’ Nov. 15 entry, taking a swing at a speech by Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Lucienne Robillard: I am not going to sugar-coat the formidable task facing anyone who straps on the hip waders to stroll through the river of jargon that follows. I...

Election-night reactions

I remember vividly the feeling I had in 1992 when Bill Clinton won the White House. I was under no illusions that the man was going to lead the United States into an era of social democracy, but a cloud had lifted; I could think of Washington without a sensation of...

Nastiest campaign in the 2004 election?

If you live within the reach of Seattle media, you got to witness a genuinely venemous Republican campaign: Dino Rossi’s race for the governorship against Democrat Christine Gregoire. (Gregoire currently has a slender lead in the vote count, and her people say...

Tin soldiers, and Bush is coming

So it comes down to Ohio.(Meanwhile, The Daily Show is cheering me up immensely as Samantha Bee conducts exit polling of people leaving a bathroom and some poor bastard leaving a peep show.)Odd how news organizations never seem to learn much from election to election....
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