Geoff McKenzie

Also…promoted??

Why was Keystone XL cancelled in the first place? Because Mitch McConnell wanted a public fight more than he wanted the pipeline.

But none of them are going to write a great song tomorrow. That’s going to be Jason Isbell. Maybe Gregory Allen Isakov.

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I think maybe you’re just a contrary sort of guy, kirklonguski.

I dunno, unknown itinerant busker hears a fragment of a song, writes some verses to finish it, plays it on street corners for a decade. Pretty folky. FWIW Dylan (who wrote the fragment) was Van Ronk’s protege for a hot minute.

For the Old Crow Medicine Show recommenders—Ketch Secor (of OCMS) wrote the song. Except for the chorus, which Dylan wrote and never finished. So, like, it’s their song, co-credited to Dylan. Or verse vice-a.

The Rucker arrangement is pretty much the OCMS arrangement.

Also, it’s folk, dammit.

That it, Corn? Mighty US and Russia? I know America is in a post-alliance age, I just didn’t expect it to obliterate history so quickly.

As a Canadian, I am also salty about this topic.

Somewhere, you’ve made a chiropractor very happy. (I am not denying the MEDICALLY ESTABLISHED link between dairy and acid reflux.)

Cut dairy to fix that cough.

Reporting in from Alberta, home of universal healthcare and an erupting measles epidemic, to note that health superstition used to be hippy liberal crystal shit (my team) until conservatives caught it from US libertarians. I used to imagine medical realism was the one thing conservatives had right.

I meannnn. He did cave on the digital services tax, expensive fentanyl theatre, NATO/defence spending (rightly). He’s doing fine in the face absurdity, but the bigger story is Canadian solidarity in withholding tourist/retail dollars. Which would be more effective if American media picked up on it.

The Hoffmeister kink if their generation.

Almost as if the White House can’t find qualified lawyers in the right field…

I think this goes back to the National Enquirer. Trump hears “exclusive” and thinks it means “for sale” in the catch and kill sense.

Zohran’s a slob—he keeps dropping rents all over the place!

My first skateboard was a “Bay Board,” which wasn’t cool, so we called it a Gay Board, obviously.

ChatGPT definitely wrote that headline. You can’t beat it for puns!

Or Tom Cruise in a Jack Reacher movie.

Wait, so the Vatican is just going to let some foreigner run their country?

His French was seen as shaky but “good enough” at the beginning of the campaign, but he gained a lot of confidence by the end. Probably the worst French for a Prime Minister in quite some time, but Quebeckers elected him anyway, mostly because he’s not Poilievre (and not close to Trump).

Our elections data is rectangles of paper marked with an X. The cardboard boxes we stuff’em in look a little flimsy, I have to say.

Banff/Jasper also very nice in December. Cold, but sunny.

I wonder if there’s some way to check? Campbell was the last sitting Prime Minister to lose their seat. Not the last opposition leader.

Ignatieff and Duceppe both lost their seats in 2011.

If snakes had arms, they’d wear sweater vests.

I fought in the old revolution
On the side of the ghost and the King.
Of course I was very young
And I thought that we were winning;
I can't pretend I still feel very much like singing
As they carry the bodies away.
Into this furnace I ask you now to venture
You whom I cannot betray.

—Leonard Cohen

Folks…