SpankyMcFarland

Very strange and probably not relevant to Don Cherry.

The present is difficult to interpret. When before the present.

So when was the left as you define it ascendant in the good times in US history?

So Hoover’s Republican administration was more left wing than Roosevelt’s? BTW much of the right in America was isolationist, as in Britain.

He was relatively left, certainly more left-wing than the likes of Calvin Coolidge and his friends. He crushed Herbert Hoover in 1932.

That anxiety exists in nearly every small country beside a larger one with the same language, and now the whole world has to worry about being swamped by American culture. If the likes of Diefenbaker had been in charge since the Fifties we’d still have the same problem with Hollywood and Facebook.

The point is that the country turned left in the Depression.

Is there data on that? When you say ‘right’ there, you mean laissez faire capitalism? One famous counterexample would be the New Deal.

Not you personally. Some of these Antifa look fairly harmless to me, not at all in the same league as their German forebears.

Isn’t it a bit pathetic to fight people like that? It’s putting the bar very low.

Anybody who has not supported PR looks a little desperate bringing up the fact of Scheer winning a plurality of the popular vote now. Under our current (antiquated) system Scheer clearly lost, even more so when you remember that he runs the only right-wing party in our parliament.

Firstly, a run-off would not improve representation of national parties in areas of the country where they are relatively unpopular. For example, based on their share of the popular vote, the Liberals should be getting at least four seats in Alberta. Secondly, in the STV system, voters have a chance to choose between candidates from the same party, thus preventing parties from foisting complete loonies on the public.

I prefer ‘whataboutery’ for this.

Andreescu is a marvellous player with one of the best forehands ever in women’s tennis but she has already shown a worrying propensity for injuries.

I’d rather see the NDP and Greens get seats than the BQ. The outcome of PR depends on its form. If we went for STV multi-seat ridings, then only the top five, say, would be selected and they could all be from one or two parties. I can’t see any riding in Canada where a ‘Marxist-Leninist’ would make that cut.

Elizabeth turned out well. Charles is a known quantity and isn’t going to change much now.

Safer for the British public than the hubbie driving anyway. It took an accident to persuade him to give up the keys. Liz ain’t going to live forever. Do you think we’re going to be as keen on Charlie?

He’s Don Cherry - his employers must have anticipated an exit like this and worded his contract accordingly.

Many mass shooters would not be psychotic but would still be psychologically abnormal with largely untreatable conditions like antisocial personality disorder. How ‘responsible’ is a psychopath for his actions? It’s an unanswerable question. I’d be more concerned about the risk of recidivism on release.

Certainly not but the stories of some shooters are strongly suggestive of it. It’s a vulnerability exposed by the availability of guns.

The other side of that is why would Sondland even want it? He was a successful businessman. Did he have any idea of the trouble he could get into?

What was Sondland doing in a job like that? He was comically ill-suited for it.

Who foots the bill for that in the end, though? Sports that tolerate and encourage brain trauma are going to face ever larger lawsuits.

He’s the perfect turn-off for parents thinking of a safe game for their kids.

Leaving aside poppies for a second, what about Cherry’s celebration of ice hockey hits and goons in an era where we know full well what happens to the brains of guys who do too much of that?