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 …
Category: Politics
THE GHIT THAT JUST KEEPS GIVING
Ronald Rump, former Grand High Imperial Twitterbug (GHIT) and former Prez of ‘Murica, has his sights set on reclaiming all his former titles: GHIT, Prez and ‘World’s Greatest Comedian’ (WGC) with millions of his adoring acolytes pouring money into his 2024 re-election campaign. Rump kicked off his WGC comedy routine by being indicted on felony …
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS FROM A DAHL’S EYE VIEW
Roald Dahl would have loved the attention he’s been getting lately - while alive he courted controversy and was often inspired to tweak people's sensibilities with outlandish statements. On the other hand, given how carefully he crafted his work, he probably would have had apoplexy over the intention of his publisher to create new editions …
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A YEAR LATER – PART THREE
A YEAR LATER - PART THREE I’ve always considered myself government wary and, acknowledging history’s horrible examples, more of a pragmatist than a military hawk. I confess that I also never imagined a world entering the 21st Century with some idiot in charge of a major world nuclear power invading an independent country and …
A YEAR LATER – PART TWO
Despite the war in Ukraine dragging on at a huge cost to Russia’s economy, Vlad (the Impaler) shows no signs of backing down his offensive. Like Hitler before him, Vlad has a deeply rooted belief that Western democracies are weak and have no appetite for a long war. His belief was bolstered when he …
ONE YEAR LATER
A YEAR LATER - PART ONE As of November last year, it was estimated that Russia spent $84 billion and had well over two hundred thousand casualties in its bid to turn Ukraine into a vassal state. I suppose it’s irrelevant to count the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians killed, or the …
NEED A NEW LEADER FOR YOUR COUNTRY?
In addition to all the scenes from around the world showing people unhappy with their government, I was watching news clips from Kanadoodle’s Iglooarliament during what I laughingly refer to as ‘question period’. It’s not so much questioning as scoring points against your opponents and it seems to generate great fun for the politicians that …
YET ANOTHER MODEST PROPOSAL
I have been marveling at how much fun it is to watch politicians playing together. In Kanadoodle we saw news snippets of Pierre (cluck, cluck) Poulet, leader of the Consumptive Party pecking at Dustbin Truthless in the Iglooarliament. There isn't a rooster anywhere who can ruffle feathers like Poulet, who's prepared to disagree with anything …
2022 IN REVIEW
In writing my last blog of 2022, I thought I'd reflect on the state of the world this past year. The very idea brought my thoughts immediately to England, back before the second world war. That was when my late father-in-law was visiting his prospective wife's parents when they asked him, with all the primness …
NO TWIT FOR THE GHIT
HeLong Muskrat, reputedly the world's richest furry mammal, has recently bought the billion dollar swamp gas giant Twit. A champion of free croaks, Muskrat was enraged when Twit began to put constraints on the smells that people could let loose on the gassy platform – like when Ronald Rump (former Prez of 'Murica and Grand …
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