Is it possible that Vlad (the Impaler) Pootine, Beloved leader of Rooskie, is now vying with Ronald Rump as world’s greatest comedian? As happens with any politician after twenty years with ultimate power, he has an unshakeable belief that he rules by divine right. In modern Rooskie, that means everyone must also believe that …
Month: June 2023
THE JOYS OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
Citizens of Kanadoodle have been castigated for having the ‘highest household debt in the G7 countries’. When I went on-line, I found it wasn’t easy to check this bit of news. It’s all about statistics. For starters, other countries had one number that gave the average debt for everybody but Kanadoodle had debt shown by …
WWII IN A NUTSHELL
The Second World War by Antony Beevor, Little Brown & Co. 2012 - It’s been seventy-eight years since the end of WWII and only twenty-eight years since some of the secret material from the period has started to be de-classified. Current historians have been combing through archives, finding fresh perspectives on what was possibly the …
ANOTHER MINISTER OF SILLY WALKS ELECTED
The provincial election results in Roberta are posted and, despite all the hand wringing from Globule TV, Damnible Spit is the newly elected Premium of Roberta. I can’t think of any other provincial election in living memory that received anywhere near the coverage given to the Spit vs. Notme match-up. For over a week …
Richard's Left Bank 