Our angry Heather Mallick has come unglued:
March 28th in the Toronto Star: Mallick: What if Harper’s dream of a majority comes true?
The Conservative hate machine will swivel toward you like a Dalek and advance. You’re doomed. A Harper majority government wouldn’t just lash out generally. It would hunt down its enemies.
Fear these people. Don’t get sick. Don’t grow old. Don’t have children. Make yourself invulnerable.
Really original .. actually I think a Florida Senator said those words.
May 4: Her latest in the Toronto Star: Apparently muzzled, or did they decide to avoid embarrassment?
I write as a feminist who wears only skirts and dresses. But for badminton, I wear shorts because anything else would be gross. You don’t want to see your mom trying to bat a shuttlecock out of a hornbeam with her skirt flying upstairs. That would be sexualizing badminton. It would be wrong.
Follow the money. The money trail leads to underarms, crotches, breasts and toes, anything that cleaves and hides. After flippy badminton skirts come see-through spandex pole-vaulting corsets. I see track shoes with mirrors on the toes, I see England, I see France, I see badminton’s underpants. Anything to make a buck.
Forced to vent elsewhere, she crosses the Atlantic to spew:
Canada’s cold new dawn
Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper is our version of George W Bush, minus the warmth and intellect…
Harper himself is a famously strange man, and not in a mercurial way like Gordon Brown. Humourless and awkward in gait, he was once photographed shaking hands with one of his own children. This will be on full display in the summer as William and Kate undertake their first royal tour, of Canada. Harper has picked the dullest bits of the country because they are the parts he doesn’t hate. You will see the royals in places where everyone goes to bed at 6:30. You will see Harper’s wife look glum while William and Kate smile gamely.
And what of Ignatieff’s defeat? Canada comprises cities separated by vast distances. It is a real achievement to lose the cities, and Ignatieff managed it. Again we feel the influence of Bush: the modern excoriation of intellect scared Ignatieff and he began droppin’ his gs and decrying all that was “partisan” – which is American for believing in something.
The triumph of Harper’s Conservatives is a revolution in Canada. Grumpy old men are happy but modernists, women, young people, immigrants, people fond of evidence-based policy will be much less so. It’s the beginning of a kind of war, conducted in a dull, quietly agonising way.
And she goes on and on, embarrassing Canadians once again. More here.
