It’s a sad truth about Kanadoodle that, despite our goofy politicians and their endless silly bickering, they’re a bunch of cream puffs compared to the politicians in ‘Murica, whose creative addiction to lies and invective easily surpasses anything Kanadoodle produces. There’s so much fun in watching our southern neighbors playing politics that 98% of Kanadoodlians …
A NEW CONTENDER
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 …
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 …
MRS. WILSON
MRS. WILSON, BBC 2018 - A three part mini-series - It’s the beginning of WWII in London. Alison Wilson (played by Ruth Wilson) meets her husband Alexander (played by Iain Glen) working in an intelligence operation in London during the early part of the war. They are attracted to each other but he’s married. WHEN …
US – A BBC MINISERIES
US - 2020 BBC miniseries in four parts - After twenty-four years of marriage, Douglas and Connie Petersen (played by Tom Hollander and Saskia Reeves) find themselves at a stage in life where they seem reasonably comfortable and settled. Tom, a rather pedantic biologist, that stuck in a middle management in a job he really …
FROM SCRATCH the MINISERIES
From Scratch - an eight part mini-series on Netflix from 2022 All right, let’s start with a spoiler alert - this eight part series turns out to be a ‘disease of the week’ story - a rare cancer in this case. Enter only if you enjoy the throbbing and sobbing that comes with lovers separated …
MISHA AND THE WOLVES
Misha and the Wolves is a remarkable 2021 documentary (now on Netflix) directed by Sam Hobkinson. It’s about Misha Defonseca, the author of Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years (1997), a book that made Defonseca a bestselling author and was the basis for a major French movie. Defonseca grew up in Brussels during the …
CUNK ON EARTH
Cunk on Earth BBC MINI SERIES 2020 Move over Dumb and Dumber! Philomena Cunk has arrived, bearing gifts of silliness that will really get the old lungs wheezing from a surfeit of mirth and merriment. ‘Cunk on Earth’ is a ‘mockumentary’ in five episodes that follows the rise of civilization on Earth from cave dwellers …
Richard's Left Bank 