Flirtations, debates, shared poetry, and midnight contract bridge (?!)

1967: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards get in trouble with possession of illegal drugs.

2007: Keith Richards and Ron Wood get in trouble because of smoking fags on stage.

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Neil Reynolds at the Globe’s Report on Business notices what pretty well nobody on the Canadian left has noticed about the Canadian Action Party: It’s a right-wing nationalist party that perfectly reflects a “dark and deluded populism” and “a strategic convergence of the reactionary right and the lunatic left.”

Kady O’Malley at Mclean’s mag provides an excellent and delightfully amusing account of the recent goings-on among and between CAP’s Connie Fogal, the Illuminat-hunters, Freemasonry experts, Birchers and 9-11 Truthers here, but she needn’t have apologized for initially referring to CAP as a “conservative” party. She ends up concluding that CAP is “if anything, a more left-leaning party than even the New Democrats.”

I think Reynolds is wrong, too, when he says further North American integration would be a good thing. But he’s right about the way just one consequence of all this craziness is that the “left” in Canada has largely dealt itself out of any rational debate about the merits of ideas like a common continental “security perimeter” and so on.

It’s all “a sinister plot being carried out under our noses,” of course, but I see Agent Radwanski has thrown our enemies into confusion and disarray. Fine work all round. And so we carry on, just one of the “literally thousands of Hasbara grunts, coordinated by octopus-like tentacles of the Elders.”

If you are unfortunate enough to live in or near Manchester, you might consider attending Engage’s Manchester public meeting: 7.00 PM, Sunday 9 September, Manchester Maccabi, Bury Old Road, Prestwich.

THE BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL CAMPAIGN AND CONTEMPORARY ANTISEMITISM

Denis MacShane MP (Chair 2005 All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry Into Anti-Semitism)
David Hirsh (Editor, Engage)
Jane Ashworth (Campaigns Director, Engage)
Richard Gold (North West Organiser, Engage)
Philip Spencer (Advisory Editor, Engage)

Panel Discussion

Meeting ends 10.00 PM

ADMISSION BY TICKET ONLY £5 (students free)payable on the night, light refreshments will be provided.

To reserve your ticket email the address behind this link.

Being a rationalist I believe you make your own luck, but sometimes even I am amazed by some sets of circumstances that come together.

Dropping something may have saved Joy Horton’s life. The 73-year-old woman was preparing some food in her western New York home on Monday morning when she dropped a spoon on the floor of her kitchen. When she bent down, her house exploded.

In other ¨news¨:

Staff at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh battled [!] for an hour to disconnect the penis of Captain Dan The Demon Dwarf from a hoover after the diminutive Fringe performer inadvertantly superglued it to the vacuum cleaner’s “attachment”.

For my next trick ladies and gentlemen!