Politics and its Discontents

In response to yesterday's post, The Salamander offered the following analysis, which I am featuring as a guest post: .. have a long...

H/t Toronto Star In response to yesterday's post , both the Salamander and the Mound of Sound offered some interesting commentary. T...

The Salamander has been doing a lot of thinking, and has some questions. Read his post, and feel free to weigh in: .. the other day, I w...

Given their losing ways, on one level it is not surprising that the Toronto Maple Leafs brought in the military the other night. But on anot...

Although I have never met him, the Salamander, from his frequent commentary on my blog and others', is unquestionably a passionate Canad...

Responding to a post I wrote this morning commenting on a Lawrence Martin article, The Salamander offered the following trenchant assessm...

In response to the letter I posted this morning, The Salamander offers some timely commentary, which I am posting below. While making his...

I sincerely hope that other commentators on my blog do not think I am playing favourites when I repost another's comments as a guest p...

The other day I wrote a post about the Harper cabal's systematic efforts to re-engineer Canadians' critical thinking capacity thr...

Thanks to the Salamander for alerting me to this tweet from Stephen Lautens :

Come, my friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite the sounding furrows; - Ulyss...

A frequent contributor of provocative analyses and insights, The Salamander left a comment on one of yesterday's posts that I am takin...

In response to a post I wrote yesterday , The Salamander left one of his trenchant and masterful commentaries on the myriad deficiencies o...

Because he doesn't maintain his own blog yet offers blistering commentary that lacerates the pretensions of his subjects, I am once m...

The other evening I put up a post on Kellie Leitch, the erstwhile physician turned Conservative M.P., enthusiastic sycophant and prominen...

Late yesterday afternoon, I wrote a post on one of our more shameful politicians, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver and the embarrass...

The question of personal integrity is one that is very near and dear to my heart. Since literature at its best is a reflection of some of ...