Recent content by The Bear

What was more cleverly worded: the CV description of the work, or the original advertisement itself?

A pigeon, so I could shit on the heads of the many people I dislike

Canada has never been on the losing side of a war. The United States has been on the losing side of every war (since the Spanish-American) in which it didn't have Canada as an ally. The outcome of the present war will be more damaging to the USA than has been to Russia its similarly imbecilic...

Any Belgians on the board with reactions to the fix that's been put on their next game?

Sasha Johansen

I have a largely complete collection of vintage Playboys, which I have been reading in sequence. I am now in 1970. Many "real time" articles about the first years of the Nixon administration, the Chicago 7 trial, and of course the Vietnam war. Replace names like Nixon, Tom Hayden, Abbie...

Not necessarily a political position per se (but often accompanying certain political persuasions these days) but something I find to be a major turnoff is racism. A person who expresses racist attitudes of any kind is one I'm not likely to want to spend much time with

Nouvelle Vague If there were a single time and place I could choose to live my entire life, it might be Paris in 1959, especially amongst the Cahiers du Cinema crowd. This gives me 90 minutes in that ambience, which I'll gladly take

Margaux Dubois

Saying the USA is "heading towards fascism" is like saying that someone walking down Sherbrooke Street is "heading towards Montreal"

Funny how the Premier of the province that gives Canada its Prime Minister always feels the need to start brandishing separation threats

I would say that there are two attitudes that get grouped under the word "nationalism" that shouldn't be confused: on the on hand ethnic nationalism, which is based on tribal identities and is usually divisive and xenophobic (this is the Bloc version in my view); and on the other hand, civic...

Ethnic nationalism is never pretty

He means that Canada lacks total ethnic homogeneity (a quality which, in his fantasies, the country of Quebec would possess)

Trump fellates microphone...and makes it look like he's seen a professional or two perform a similar operation