A brief ITQ interlude: "Now for my favorite part of the show …"

by kadyomalley on Friday, September 12, 2008 12:40pm - 25 Comments

“What does that say? Talk to the audience! Ugh, this is always death…”

Present company excepted, of course. Honestly, you’ve no idea how I brag about our commenters here at macleans.ca. All my colleagues with blogs – blollegues? – are pea green with envy over the fact that actual conversation breaks out, instead of just partisan autobots sloganeering at each other about CONservatives and LIEberals. (Is there an internet-official derisive term for the NDP? I’ve always thought of Dippers as an affectionate nickname.)

Anyway, posting will be lighter than usual here today for two reasons: I’m in the midst of writing a slightly longish thing on the Conservative war room — yes, again, but I promise it won’t just involve line after line of HAHAHAHAHA RYAN SPARROW, no matter how deserved — and yesterday, I managed to lose a contact lens down the sink, which has seriously hampered my ability to type, what with the temporary loss of depth perception and all.

In the meantime, feel free to use this as an openish thread, or head Wellsward to talk polls, or head over to Andrew Potter’s Cat and Pigeons Show to argue about his unified theory of right-wing jerkiness, or try to console Andrew Coyne over having his fiscally conservative heart broken once again by an off-the-cuff prime ministerial utterance. I’ll be back later.

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  • Navigator

    I hope you can find a place for Peter Seller’s line: “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the war room!”

  • Steph C

    *blush* Aren’t you sweet?! Looking forward to your Heman-Womenhaters’ War Room, but it won’t be the same without Sparrow. I feel your pain!

  • Mike T.

    partisan autobots…and trolling decepticons!

  • Steph C

    Correction: … to your PIECE ON THE blablabla …

  • penlan

    Take out the left lens, Kady, & then everything will only be blurry but your depth perception won’t be a problem. You’ll have equal-balanced blurriness. I sympathize.

  • Jason Hickman

    … and yesterday, I managed to lose a contact lens down the sink, which has seriously hampered my ability to type, what with the temporary loss of depth perception and all.

    From experience, I know that’s a royal pain. If you get a minute, we want a pic posted of you typing with your Elle Driver-style eyepatch on…

  • Dr Riff

    “Something is going on here and it is simply being accepted by government after government after government.” (Jack Layton)

    what’s going on is that at a fixed excise tax rate per litre, the price at the pumps can fluctuate a quarter and we still only take in 4 cents at this time. you know the price trend will only go up, and as the price goes up consumption goes down, negatively affecting our bottom line. its a lot like that loophole in income trusts with only international banking houses and corporations being the profiteers.

    changing that to a percent scheme will have the effect of boosting revenue on carbon emissions and that extra could be used to eliminate the GST. there will be a point where the overhead of running that bureaucracy plus the rebates will outweigh the income.

  • Mikael C.

    “internet-official derisive term for the NDP?”

    70s porn stars, communists, hippies. Take your pick :D

  • Style

    “Heman-Womenhaters’ War Room,.”

    I would love to see a He-Man style action figure of Ezra Levant. And I mean “love” in the woman-hatingest, manliest way possible. I would start wtth that character with the crab claws and work from there…

  • Steph C

    lefties, socialists, pinko commies

  • Anony Mouse

    I generally just stick to calling them Pinko Commie Hippies, seems to work great for me.

  • Dr Riff

    ohhhhh i get it – the favorite part of the show being the ‘single female voter’ (actress)

    LOL

  • Dr Riff
  • Alan

    I think, for the NDP derisive term, it needs to be some sort of ‘pun’ involving the actual name of the party, so things like Pinko and Communist don’t count, such as “CONservatives and LIEberals” (although personally I usually prefer FIBerals :P ). Hmm, if Dippers is the affectionate name, maybe DUPErs?

    Incidentally, Dr. Riff, I feel like maybe you’ve become lost and accidentally wandered into another blog.

  • http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com bigcitylib

    Yo Kady! CBC gave me credit fot the Tories taking down their “excuse generator”. Try and work that in somewhere. Unfortunately, though, I have lost my ability to send you dirty emails on Stephen Harper’s behalf.

  • Dr Riff

    “In the meantime, feel free to use this as an openish thread”

    incidentally i don’t give a shit what you think alan.

  • Alan

    *sigh* My point, Dr. Riff (if that is your real name ;) ), was simply to say that there seemed to be a discussion going on, and your comments seem to be out in left field. I take you point that Kady said this should be an ‘openish thread’, but you don’t have to be rude about it.

  • John D

    I always thought it was New Dummocrats

  • Chris B

    Dr. Riff – we do pay GST on gas. So for every 20 cents a litre the price goes up, the government gets another cent a litre. So on 1.40 gas, the feds get about 11 cents total, between the excise tax and GST.

    41 billion litres of gas a year – every time the price goes up 10 cents, that means an extra 200 million dollars in our treasury.

  • Dr Riff

    i said excise tax which is a losing game

  • Lord Bob

    I suggest New DemocRATic Party. Admittedly, a bit cumbersome.

  • http://caiti-online.blogspot.com/ Transcanada

    Is this a good place to mention the irony of calling an election, then using the same election as an excuse not to talk about the scandal you are trying to avoid by calling the election?

    Whew! A longish confusing sentence I know. But look at this:

    Harper seeks delay in hearing over Cadman libel suit

  • Dr Riff

    my opinion is that the judge will refuse the delay on the grounds he created the “emergency” himself.

  • Ian

    It’s killing me, Kady. That quote you started with – where is it from?

  • Horseface

    It’s from Krusty on the Simpsons.

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