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Emergency Review of Poems Underway!

2008-03-12T22:07:00.004-04:00

According to the Toronto Star,

"a private Jewish school is reviewing samples of sexual and at times violent poetry written by its director – and posted on his website – after some parents complained the content is inappropriate for an educator."

Judging by the two excerpts posted online by The Star, his poetry is not particularly good, but I don't feel that it's bad enough to warrant a full review.

But since a review is what's been called for, I feel qualified to do so as I've been known to publish a line or two of verse on these pages myself.

Here are my thoughts and recommendations.

Dear Mr. Prashker,

Upon reviewing your poems, I feel you have stumbled upon some compelling imagery - and made some elementary mistakes.

The first poem, "For Agapé" relies too much on adjectives such as ironically, ardently, ineptly.

Tip 1: Show, don't tell Mr. Prashker.

For example, "fumbling with your bra" is a much better way to communicate "ardently if ineptly" than "ardently if ineptly" is. Of course fumbling with a bra could be seen as a cliché, but then, it's also familiar to a lot of people. Either way, you'll probably want to think up something yourself, since you're the one who has to decide whether it expresses what you want it to express.

Tip 2: Always consider cutting the last line of your poem.

Poets are often tempted to use the last line of the poem to summarize exactly what you meant. This removes the subtlety of what your saying and creates a kind of "ta-da" moment that readers are probably not as impressed with as you are. For example:

"F - - - the middle class" you said

"I am," I answered "I am."

But you were too preoccupied to hear

The second poem, "A Song of Self-overcoming" seems not so much a poem as a fragment. I think the idea needs further development. It has no clear sense of purpose or voice. So,

Tip 3: Poeple don't want to read grand pronouncements about human nature.

If they did, they'd go visit their aunts and uncles more often. If you want to write a poem about the time your uncle compared building a deck to the Bible's creation story, that's fine and it might end up being a very good poem. But you can't just write down whatever you want and call it a poem.

Consider the question of who is the speaker in the poem? Who are they talking to? What is the context?

Right now it sounds like your speaker is you (which could be why you're in so much trouble!) This poem certainly expresses your opinion about human nature and the state of the world - but isn't this the job of politicians? And if you're going to be a poet, you're going to need a bit more credibility than that lot.

Conclusion: I believe that you made a good start with these two pieces. As always, my advice is threefold: revision, revision, revision. I don't see anything here that warrants dismissal, particularly since you are not being paid to write poetry.

In solidarity,
DA

Referendum Day!

2007-10-10T08:00:00.000-04:00

Wednesday October 10th is Referendum Day in Ontario, so get out and vote! But first, perhaps you've found yourself wondering about the citizen-endorsed Mixed Member Proportional election system that everyone is talking about.

What are Party Lists?

A Party List is each party's publicly available list of ranked candidates for the election. When a party wins a larger share of the vote than the number of the 90 local seats they win, members of their Party List are elected into the Legislature. Voters will be able to research each party's list before the election takes place and it would seem to me that individuals on the Party Lists would be placed under a lot of public scrutiny. The method each party uses to choose its list must also be made public.

Who's on the Party Lists? Will I be able to find out about them in advance?

Each Party's List will be published before the election along with the method which was used to select them. A Party List that's full of outstanding individuals will attract public support for that party. In other regions where this system is used, party lists usually follow gender parity and include greater diversity with respect to age, ethnicity and other demographic variables (this would an improvement over our current voting system - under FPTP 75 - 80% of our elected representatives are men!).

Doesn't this create a two-tiered legislature? Are their any advantages to having 39 List MPPs?

While Party List candidates don't have a local political constituency to serve, they are competing with the members of other parties lists for support and members of their own party for a good spot on the Party List - so it's in their interest to serve the people as best they can. While these List members wouldn't do constituency work, they also wouldn't receive funding for a consituency office or constituency staff. These representatives will also be able to take a broader view on big issues,and are able to consider how each decision will affect the whole province, rather than one particular riding.

What if a party stacks their party list with political cronies?

My advice - don't vote for a party that stacks their list with political cronies.
By the way, all the party hacks I could find are supporting the No Campaign.

When's the election?

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

What can I do?

Educate yourself - read the other point of view.Talk to everyone you know about the referendum. In order for democracy to function, people need to know what's at stake!

About the October 10th referendum on MMP

2007-09-28T08:31:00.001-04:00

On October 10th, voters in Ontario will make history by voting in our first referendum since we repealed prohibition. The question is simple: Should Ontario adopt a new method of electing Members of Provincial Parliament or stick with the current system?

The alternative voting method is a form of proportional representation called the Mixed-Member Proportional system. The system was proposed by the Ontario Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform - a group of ordinary Ontario citizens who were selected to study the question of whether our current method of electing representatives in Ontario should be changed, and if so, to propose an alternative.

Let me get this out of the way: I will be voting in favour of the MMP - the new system proposed by the citizens assembly.

Here are some of the problems with our current system of electing provincial and federal representatives (referred to as a First Past the Post):

1. First Past the Post wastes dissenting votes. FPTP is a winner-take-all system - and winner-take-all makes losers of most. In the current system your vote is only effective if you vote for the winning candidate. While we count dissenting votes, they are not reflected in the make-up of the legislature. That is to say, when youvote for a losing candidate, your vote is effectively wasted - it hasno affect on which party forms the government or how many seats each party receives in the legislature.

In a system where most candidates win election in their riding with less than 50% of the vote, many voters remain unrepresented. Under the current system, voting for a party thatis unpopular in your riding will have no impact - isn't it time that we started counting these votes?

2. First Past the Post over represents populist regional parties like the Reform Party and the Bloc Quebecois and underrepresents parties with more diffuse national support (like theGreen Party and the NDP). For example, in the last federal election,the Bloc Quebecois won 1,553,201 votes and was rewarded with 51 seats in parliament. Meanwhile, the NDP won 2,589,597 votes and won only 29 seats. It took just over 30,000 votes elect a Bloc MP and almost 90,000 votes to elect one NDP member. One might think that the Green Party, which amassed over 600,000 votes would deserve at least 6 seats, but under our First Past the Post system,they didn't win any seats. 600,000 people were entitled to exactly no representation of the party of their choice in Ottawa.

The First Past the Post voting system works best in a two-party system - that's what it was designed for. And it was designed at a time when every candidate for election was white and male and British. Canadians have evolved beyond just two parties - when will we move past First Past the Post?

3. First Past the Post rewards 40% support with absolute power. We know the axium "absolute power corrupts absolutely" - so why do we keep giving absolute power to parties that didn't even earn a majority of our votes? The last time a government in Ontario won over 50% of the popular vote was in the 1930s. Recently, Bob Rae's NDP in 1990 won 37.6% and took 74 of 130 seats in the Legislature - a clear majority ofseats. In 1995, Mike Harris took 44.8% of votes and was rewarded with 82 of 130 seats - giving him absolute power. Dalton McGuinty's Liberals won 46.4%in the last election and took 72 of 103 seats... you get the idea. Ineach case, a party for which most people didn't vote was given free reign to spend, slash or break their promises as they saw fit. Isn't there a better way?

To be continued...

Perhaps you've seen me on Supreme Master Television

2007-09-20T22:52:00.000-04:00

You can see me talk about the Toronto Vegetarian Association and our Annual Vegetarian Food Fair about one third of the way through this video (and then it goes on after a brief message)...

Click here

Red Rover! Red Rover! We call Stephane over!

2007-09-20T22:30:00.001-04:00

Sometimes calling by-elections is like playing Red Rover.

When Stephen Harper called the three Quebec by-elections that took place earlier this week, there were additional vacancies in four other electoral districts. That is to say, Stephen Harper could have called four more by-elections at the same time (he must do so within 6 months of these four seats falling vacant).

Two of the other vacancies were in Toronto, where the Liberals plan to run star candidates Martha Hall Findley and Bob Rae in two safe Liberal ridings. The other two are Vancouver Quadra BC - another solid Liberal district - and Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River - a riding which has been held by each of the three major parties in the past ten years.

Stephen Harper's gamble was simple - call the Quebec by-elections and call Stephane Dion over to face long odds in Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot and Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean and an NDP dream candidate in the generally Liberal riding of Outremont.

In the rural areas, Dion's Liberals barely made an impact. In the third, NDP star Thomas Mulcair broke through Liberal ranks - ranks that are still working out whether or not they can trust each other to hold tight through the electoral challenges ahead.

Meanwhile, Harper's Conservative candidate for Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean found it easy to break through a soft spot in Bloc Quebecois support, and Duceppe struggled past intensified Conservative opposition in Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot.

Dion's big mistake in all this was not drawing attention to the other by-elections which Harper is putting off. Instead of running full-steam towards Outremont, perhaps the right move would have been to call Harper's bluff, smirk for the cameras and say "if you're so tough, why don't you call over my dream team?"

In politics appearance is everything. And in Red Rover, there's nothing more satisfying than when your side makes an unexpected breakthrough. Except perhaps the satisfaction of watching your opponent struggle against the unbreakable bonds of well-prepared comrades in arms.

Ontario's Liberal Government - making Ontario slightly less difficult...

2007-09-05T21:36:00.001-04:00

This election ad by the Liberal Party of Ontario seems to indicate that Liberals will run on their record - making things slightly less difficult for people than they were four years ago when the Black cats still roamed the halls of power (yes, I am invoking Mouseland).

The election will be held on October 10th. I'm voting for the NDP.

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Equal and Opposite

2007-05-16T09:44:00.001-04:00

Someone smarter than me once said that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Rubber Baron

2007-05-15T10:57:00.001-04:00

The great thing about Michael Ignatieff isn't just the irony.

A couple weeks ago, the Liberal Party deputy leader stepped to the plate to attack the Harper government for handing over detainees captured by the Canadian military in Afghanistan to the authroities there who, wait for it, are alleged to have beaten, starved, whipped and frozen after being deposited with Afghan security forces.

But wait, here's the rebuttal from the Conservative Party website, quoting some Harvard-educated academic named Michael Ignatieff.

“To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.” (Edmonton Journal, May 9, 2004)

Good one. (I believe Stephen Harper also used this in Question Period)

Meanwhile, The Star's Linda Diebel has written a book. It's called Stéphane Dion: Against the Current. Anyhow, a section appeared this weekend (Toronto Star, May 12, 2007) which reported that Ignatieff turned down the position of Liberal Party policy chair for the more, let's say, opportune chance to sit in Question Period as the deputy leader.

According to Diebel, "Scuttlebutt grew that Ignatieff was using the deputy leader's position to build his own empire and steal Dion's job." (It's a great article, and I'm choosing to go with this hypothesis, although you should probably read it yourself if these kinds of things interest you.)

Cast in this light, it looks like Ignatieff is using the deputy leader position to bury some of his old, less popular positions so that when the time comes, he's more palatable to voters.

It seems that Ignatieff is hoping that he's made of rubber, not glue.

Today he takes Gilles Duceppe to task for "opportunism."

"I took part in a leadership contest that lasted eight months. He took part in a leadership contest that lasted 24 hours," said Liberal deputy leader Michael Ignatieff (Etobicoke Lakeshore).

He refused to acknowledge any nobility in Duceppe's admission of error. Instead, Ignatieff said he saw political "opportunism."

"You go into these things and you should go in with both feet and fight through to the end, and he didn't," he said. (Toronto Star, May 15, 2007)

Another classy attack by the Liberal Party's very own Rubber Baron.

News from the Toronto Vegetarian Association

2007-05-14T15:26:00.000-04:00

Summer Jobs with the Toronto Vegetarian Association

The Toronto Vegetarian Association is currently hiring for three summer student positions. We are looking for a Festival & Directory Assistant, a Research Assistant and a Community Outreach Assistant.

Applicants must be vegetarian and meet Canada Summer Jobs program requirements. For more details, please visit Veg.ca - Jobs.

Tofu Haiku contest in it's last week

There's just one week left until the close of the Tofu Haiku poetry contest. Visit tofuhaiku.com for more details.

I'm a Development Coordinator

For those of you who aren't reading my blog for the press release-style promotion of projects that I'm involved in, and instead want to know what's going on in my life, I recently got a promotion to become TVA's Development Coordinator. It's a sweet gig; I've really enjoyed working with TVA so far and I'm loving life in Toronto.

Any questions?

Mixed Member Proportional is a better way

2007-05-10T08:39:00.000-04:00

1. With MMP, every vote counts. Under MMP each voter has the opportunity to select the party and the local candidate of their choice. 90 members would be elected the same way they are now - using first past the post to represent local ridings. An additional 29 seats are allocated to even out the discrepency between the percentage of the vote each party receives and their proportion of seats in the legislature.

For example, if the Green Party failed to win any local ridings, they would receive a number of the 29 extra seats such that that the percentage of seats they have in the legislature equals the percentage of the votes they've received. Parties which would typically be overrepresented under First Past the Post would receive fewer or possibly none of the extra 29 seats. In this way, every vote affects the outcome of the election.

2. With MMP, parties get the number of seats they deserve. Under MMP, if a party received 10% of the vote, they'll receive 10% of the seats (not 0) and if they receive 40% of the vote, they'll receive 40% of the seats (not 60%). This is accomplished through the allocation of the 29 extra seats to candidates from Party Lists.

Candidates on Party Lists stand for election just like other members - effectively, when voters cast their Party vote, they are endorsing that party's list. Another advantage of List Candidates is that when they're elected they can look out for the whole province, rather than just one local area. Most importantly - the List mechanism ensures that each party is represented proportionally.

3. With MMP, there will be no more false majorities. Because a Mixed Member Proportional electoral system will result in more accurate representation in the legislature, political parties will no longer be able to govern as though they have a majority unless they have actually earned one. This will effectively mean that in order to govern, parties will have to work together and find common ground.

Unlike the minority governments that we're used to, MMP minority governments are actually quite stable in most jurisdictions - fixed election dates are the rule because parties are not busy jockeying for a shot at a (false) majority government. It is worth noting that many of Canada's great reforms took place during minority governments.

Big Bad Wolf

2007-04-27T21:32:00.001-04:00

Blow down the Big Bad Wolf
he's a pushover
a shove lover
a rum runner
a truth loser
battle cruiser
Blow up the Big Bad Wolf

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Two-socks

2007-04-11T21:34:00.001-04:00

Wearing different coloured socks today. It's a laundry thing.

It's like each step I'm a different person. Black sock dave is walks to the fridge and thinks about what would be a really good name for a band. White sock dave walks back and decides it's time to hang up the shirts that he brought back from the laundromat. Black sock dave strives confidently back to the fridge for a beer. White sock dave thinks isn't it about time we called the landlord about the fact that our heat stopped working last night. Of course this happens more rapidly than this. Each step is a change in perspective. Each stride the sound of pants brushing against themselves. A pendulum swings with my hips.

This is probably the kind of thing that drove Harvey Dent insane. I mean, it would be if he were a real person.

Ba-da-bing Ba-da-boom, Mario's jump to power

2007-03-28T14:36:00.000-04:00

What's surprising about the rise of ADQ leader Mario Dumont as a major force in Quebec politics is how few Mario brothers allusions are appearing in the headlines... in ten years, when eighties kids start getting into editorial positions, then you'll see our true wit. Until then, I offer these titles:

"Flower power: How Mario torched the competition"
"Mario's magic mushroom: ADQ growth continues"
"Mario starts work on new level"
"Cimbing the beanstock"
"Mario's star power"
"Shell Game: Mario's jump to prominence"
"Mario's New Hat"

And my personal favourite, "Charest wins a Luigi government"

Come on newspapers, it's called the lowest common denominator for a reason!

Maybe the headlines are better in French...

Viral Marketing Ploy for tofuhaiku.com

2007-03-12T23:25:00.001-04:00

Have you heard about the Tofu Haiku poetry contest?

Check out our panel of superstar judges. Those who know me will know how excited I am that John K. Samson of The Weakerthans is part of our panel. Those who know vegetarian cooking will be excited that Sarah Kramer is also a judge. (She has a cool blog here).

I swear the contest is really cool. It's a project of the Toronto Vegetarian Association, my place of employment.

Anyhow, if you think this is cool, please help us spread the word.

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Tories to steal Liberal green plan

2007-01-17T12:55:00.000-05:00

TheStar.com is reporting that the Conservative Party of Canada may announce they've stolen the Liberal Party environment strategy this Friday.

On Friday in Victoria, the Tories are expected to set out a plan similar to one introduced by the Liberals in 2004 that seeks to produce 4,000 megawatts of energy from wind power over four years, according to observers. The Climate Action Network said the government must increase its use of green power to 12,000 megawatts by 2013 if the country is to provide a credible response to climate change.
The new Tory EnerGuide program is expected to include a tax-credit incentive for homeowners, but no cash to fund qualified efficiency inspectors, said John Bennett, a spokesperson for the environmental coalition.
He and other environmentalists said they were concerned the Tories were simply repackaging old Liberal announcements, meaning that progress on the environment file will have been delayed by about one year.

If Stephane Dion wrote for my blog he might complain that he was planning to repackage those old Liberal announcements. Despite the one year delay on environmental progress noted in the article, there is still hope in Liberal circles that the delay will be prolongued for a few more years so they can make those announcements again to remind Canadians of the difference between the Liberal vision for innovating the environment and the... oh, shiny, what do you guys think about cutting transfers to the provinces?

American Keynote

2006-11-30T17:00:00.000-05:00

So, it's been reported with some frequency that some Liberals are upset that Howard Dean, an American, was invited to give the keynote address at the Liberal leadership convention. But wait, this sounds familiar. Who was the keynote in 2005? Wasn't it some fancy professor from Harvard that people kept comparing to Pierre Trudeau?

Prediction: Howard Dean will run for the Liberal Party of Canada leadership in 2007.

Don't worry, he'll do fine... there's only so much steam you can work up going from Ontario to Quebec to British Columbia then back to Ontario and then maybe to Nova Scotia stopping in PEI, Newfoundland and New Brunswick and then to Quebec and Ontario again and the praries. Vermont is practically the eleventh province anyhow, and, unlike his predecessor, it's not like Dean was on the wrong side of an issue as important to Canadians as the US-led invasion of Iraq.

Not your cousin from Vermont's Democrats

2006-11-09T16:48:00.000-05:00

Interesting that the story of the election is Democrats retaking the House and the Senate and how this signals a rejection of GWB's Iraq plan. Also interesting that Democratic Senate (Majority) Leader Harry Reid would say that American voters "have come to the conclusion, as we did some time ago, that a one-party town simply doesn't work." So Harry Reid apparently wants either a) another Republican President in 2008 or b) to lose control of the House, Senate or both.

Another under-reported element of interest in this election concerns the Democrats strategy in nominating candidates for many of the seats they won in both houses. According to CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer, "these Democrats that were elected last night are conservative Democrats. They are not like some of the liberal firebrands in the House right now."

Also interesting is the irony that the "internet bloggers" who supported Ned Lamont's candidacy have helped to create a political situation which gives their adversary Joe Lieberman a great deal more power than he had going into this election.

The US electoral system is funny; while this is inevitably a good turn of events, it will be interesting to see just how good. It will be interesting to see whether the Dems use their political capitol to persue impeachment hearings for an already unpopular President rather than, let's say, passing laws and governing the country.

Final thought: Does anyone else suspect that Donald Rumsfeld stepped down as Secretary of Defence to take a run for the Presidency?

A pessimistic Kyoto prediction

2006-10-19T17:59:00.000-04:00

...sometime in 2011

Prime Minister Michael Ignatieff announced his environment plan today, setting targets to meet Canada's Kyoto requirements. Citing the Conservatives inaction on the environment during their five years in power, Ignatieff said that his plan "sets out clear goals to meet Canada's international commitments." The targets would be met by 2111 - 99 years after the deadline set out in the protocol.

"Obviously Canada can't meet these targets now," Ignatieff declared. "It would be nice of course, but it just isn't possible given the current reality in Canada. If I could go back in time and come to Canada and become Prime Minister earlier, then maybe that reality could be altered. Unfortunately, that's not possible in this reality," he explained. "But then, what is reality," he added inquisitively.

Ignatieff was characterized as an "out-of-touch, Liberal hypocrite" by interim Conservative leader Monte Solberg who said the Liberal plan contradicted Ignatieff's earlier statement that he would meet the targets set out in the Kyoto Protocol by 2012 - within one year of taking office.

Just two weeks ago, the Prime Minister said the goals were within reach. "When I said that Canada couldn't meet the [Kyoto] targets, it was because I may have misjudged some of the intelligence on this matter," Ignatieff said. "But I, Michael Ignatieff, former Harvard Professor and leader of the Liberal Government of Canada, will meet Canada's Kyoto targets."

"The environment is," Ignatieff continued, "something that we can't live without. It sustains us. It is... something that we can either destroy or protect. Sometimes it may be necessary for us to destroy the planet in order to protect it."

Today's plan takes effect in 2045.

...

12 WAYS OF STOPPING THE RADIO OUTSIDE THE MUCHMUSIC STORE

2006-10-12T23:03:00.000-04:00

1. Cut the wires.

2. Go in and ask politely. "Please. Can you stop? Just stop."

3. Shout the radio out.

4. Smash windows until alarm goes.

5. Run for City Council. Defeat popular incumbent with whom you agree on pretty much anything. Build a consensus that listening to this radio outside the MuchMusic Store is fucking painful and that it be prohibited.

6. Blow own eardrums.

7. Buy MuchMusic. Shut down the store. Open a museum devoted to the old store.

8. Stay here till the store closes. If the radio doesn't turn off it won't matter cause you can't hear it anymore.

9. Arrange a white noise attack featuring a local drumming group.

10. Tap into the satellite feed (or the cable running from the ChumCity Building). Replace music and ads with sound poetry. Crack. Pop. Sssss. Splice in old radio addresses by Tommy Douglass from when he was premier of Saskatchewan.

11. Use your charming wit and good looks to convince staff that instead of playing their crap outside, they should let you play your crap inside. Put on Allan Ginsberg singing about mansex. It will be so good that they staff will sabotage their own radio system permanently and run away with you to Montreal. You will raise three kids together, two girls and a boy, all hippies.

12. The streetcar comes.

What's in a blog? What's in a roti?

2006-08-18T00:00:00.000-04:00

In a blog you will find potatoes and other vegetables. Sometimes you will find eggpant or channa or spinach and hopefully butternut squash.

In a roti you will talk about how much you love your job and how every good roti is wrapped in your parents house... that's why it's so cheap.

In this roti, you will find an old poem about the suburbs and you will try to sing it to your new iMac...

You will pretend that you have a band called something about Racoons and that you write songs about the suburbs involving pirates, veterans and how you left that binder at work.

You will stop having those recurring dreams about accidentally eating meat only to wake up one day with the uncomfortable feeling in your stomach like the veggie dog you had at the Sonic Youth concert may not have been a veggie dog after all and now you feel quite ill because of it.

You will blog about roti and you will talk about yourself in the second person.

The Kyoto Irony

2006-05-15T17:42:00.000-04:00

I only skimmed this article about the Conservative plan for Climate Change, but I found the conclusion quite wonderful:

"The irony is, had the Alliance-Conservatives not strongly opposed controls on greenhouse gas emissions over the past decade, the current Conservative government may not be in what they term an impossible position."

~ Simon Donner, in The Toronto Star

Corwin is a jerk

2006-05-14T21:46:00.000-04:00

... um, that's about it.

Resist the temptation

2006-04-25T11:00:00.000-04:00

So upon completing my five year Honours Arts Degree in Psychology & English, I've skipped town. I've moved to Toronto and next Monday I start work at the Toronto Vegetarian Association. I'm pretty excited about this.

In case you are tempted to ask me why I'm a vegetarian OR to tell me why you are not one (which is frequently the reaction I get when I mention it), please go to www.veg.ca - this is the TVA's website. It has all sorts of wonderful information about the social and personal benefits of vegetarianism and relevant resources, links and info for Toronto vegetarians.

Also, for those wondering, I would be supporting Carolyn Bennett for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, were I not already in the New Democratic Party of Canada. Remember us? We're the reason Liberals campaign from the left.

Ten years is the usual amount of time it takes Liberals to adopt / implement NDP policies / soundbites, so it is fitting that Liberals recently adopted Bob Rae, who was, admittedly, one of our most successful sounbites. Speaking of the former Premier, this article about Mr Rae is good and could be useful to inocculate those Social Democrats tempted to support Rae.

How you feel.

2006-03-08T02:00:00.000-05:00

  Pull tomatoes from
    the air    juggle   toss in bed
      squeeze seeds   juice and skin.

You really want to know?

2006-03-03T18:30:00.000-05:00