BABE - a Chris Noonan (director/co-writer) and George Miller (producer/co-writer) film from 1995, based on the children’s book ‘The Sheep-Pig’ by Dick King-Smith - I think any children’s book or movie that aspires to greatness has to appeal not only to children, but the adults who sit and read/watch it with them. ‘Babe’ is just …
THE TRILLIONAIRE GAME – HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?
I’ve been sitting on the old ice block, tossing back a brewski and thinking about a billion dollars. It’s a BIG number, no doubt about it. I don’t know about you, but even without a brewski, I have difficulty wrapping my head around a billion dollars. It's the kind of number that goes with the …
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WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 1970’S?
The ‘people’ in ‘Murica, by which I mean the little folk - not the billionaires, are pissed with the system and it’s no wonder. Federal Reserve data shows that the economic bottom 50 percent of U.S. households now hold less than 4 percent of the country’s assets, while the top 10% income earners hold over …
GOING, GOING… SOLD TO THE MAN WITH THE ORANGE HAIR
It’s official - Kanadoodle’s BOY WONDER, Dustbin Truthless, is stepping down as Prime Ribber. His Libelous Party is now beginning a process to select a new leader who will get to be the new Prime Ribber until an election is called - a period estimated to be about thirty-five seconds. Prediction: the new leader of …
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SHOULD DEMOCRACY SURVIVE? PART TWO
Now that the Grand High Imperial Twitterbug (GHIT) and his Rumpette Cult (formerly the Publican Party) are gearing up to DRAIN THE SWAMP in ‘Murica and usher in a New and Golden Age (NAGA), we in Kanadoodle should start thinking about draining our own swamp. Don’t we deserve a NAGA up here in the frozen …
A YEAR END PREVIEW
With Christmas done, Boxing ‘week’ sales in full swing and the year coming to an end, the news media think it’s wonderful to subject us to pathetic ‘year end reviews’. I ask you, who wants to remember all the stupid and squalid events of the past year when we’ve just barely put them behind us? …
THE CHILDREN’S TRAIN
The Children’s Train - 2024 Netflix movie directed by Cristina Comencini - in Italian with subtitles. In our modern context, it might be hard to comprehend how attractive communism was to vast numbers of people around the globe immediately after WWII. There was a brief window of time after the war ended and before Stalin …
THE ONLY GIRL IN THE ORCHESTRA
Netflix - 2013: a documentary directed and produced by Molly O'Brien - My dearest darling wife maintains that there’s more to blog about than politics. The thought of a rolled eye gets me thinking I should give my loyal readers a break from political hilarity this week to have a look at a documentary …
SHOULD DEMOCRACY SURVIVE – PART ONE
'MURICANS! Are you frustrated at democratic systems that have become increasingly dysfunctional and unresponsive to the REAL problems facing the world? Tired of being regarded as STUPID by THEM? Ready to give those DEEP STATE, ELITE pinko WOKS a whack on the nose? Have you been waiting for someone with INSTANT SOLUTIONS to the most …
LESSONS FROM WAR – PART TWO
‘Hitler and the Nazis - Evil on Trial’ is one of the new Netflix series about WWII. This one offers an account of how Germany came to entrust their destiny to a megalomaniac with no ethics, morals or boundaries. The series flips between the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals and an account of Hitler’s …
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