I’ll see how British Airways treats its passengers. And of course, sucker Bob bought a business class return across the Atlantic, found the crew polite and friendly, but then – on returning to Heathrow for my onward connection to Beirut – was downgraded to economy class. Flourishing a fistful of dollars in compensation, the Heathrow staff told me that the flight was overbooked.

No, it wasn’t their fault, Jim. I know that. But it was the same old BA story. Too many of us animals had turned up for your flight and the last donkeys in transit got sent to the stalls at the back.

Is it me, or does his whining about his globe trotting seem out of kilter with the understanding given to his attackers in 2001?

If I had been them, I would have downgraded him.

Comrades Lauryn Oates, Jonathon Narvey and Karim Qayumi do a fine job explaining what the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee is all about, here.

I especially appreciated the fact that the reporter on the story, Brian Hutchinson (who knows Afghanistan well), noticed that among CASC’s founders are people “who will never be mistaken for conservatives. . .[and] include “academics, gay rights activists, student activists, Afghan-Canadians and feminists,” and that we are “united under the premise that we must honour our obligations to the cause of solidarity with the people of Afghanistan.”

That’s a refreshing change from the usual crap about us being “right wing,” let me tell you. But I would also want to point out that, just as we’re not merely a west coast phenomenon, there are also Red Tories among our founding members, such as two former federal Progressive Conservative cabinet ministers (John Fraser, Flora Macdonald), and a former federal Liberal cabinet minister and British Columbia lieutenant-governor (Iona Campagnolo). These are damn good people, and I will not hear a bad word spoken about them from any of the posh townie bastards who frequent this web lodge from time to time.

These are my people, and you will mind your dang manners.