A propos of something or other... I once went sturgeon fishing in the Fraser (it’s strictly catch-and-release of course), and caught a 5 1/2 fish. (Strong fish too. It was touch and go whether I was going to pull it into the boat, or it was going to pull me into the chuck). Only then did I realize how much sturgeon…

Well, there have been several human feet — still in running shoes! — that washed up on the shore on the north coast...

Well not forgot exactly, just thought the point was made... But you’re right, I should have mentioned dogfish. Many of the poles and other carvings we saw on Haida Gwaii featured them.

Very. Woddya know. I’d never heard of those.

I think satire has to involve some intentional mis-labeling, or deadpanning; else it’s mere parody. (Take The Borowitz Report — please). Certainly anything that announces itself as satire has just excluded itself from the category.

Flattering, but the truth is, the ocean’s too cold for swimming here. Some people surf, but they need wetsuits.

If it’s the lack of diversity in Jersey sharks that bothers you, come visit British Columbia. Not just (rare) Great Whites here, but basking sharks, salmon sharks, brown cat sharks, blue sharks, Pacific sleeper sharks... And no recorded case of an attack on a human.

Of course, that was all because France wouldn’t join in the war on Iraq. But since that had nothing to do with 9/11, neither did that “freedom fries” nonsense. True, it took place after 9/11, chronologically. So did the breakup of Destiny’s Child, the death of Hugo Chavez...

Where have you gone, Ray Bradbury? A planet turns its lonely eyes to you...

The concept of fragile orange snowflakes was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US-based Twitter accounts non-competitive.

If you can find a better exemplar of chaos theory than Trump, let us know, will you? That’ll be my cue to turn to some very urgent huddling-under-my-blankie-and-whimpering-in-fear.

I hope they’re recalibrating their climate models to account for Trump’s hot air. It has to be a significant contributor to global warming.

Seriously, if it’s true Kislyak was “taken aback” by the suggestion, the decision not to set up this arrangement might not have been the Trumpoids’. (The Russians probably thought they were dealing with rank amateurs, adolescents — as who shall blame them?)

True, but for that kind of thing, Trump can always use Twitter. Or the phone, like with Duterte.

And, by the way, it *is* alleged — and those involved have not denied — that the purpose would have been to transfer information, of whatever kind, without the knowledge of — outside of the usual, even the secret usual channels of — the US gubmint. Routine, typical, innocent? I should bloody well say not.

A “channel” of which the US end will be located in the Russian embassy and not — say — the White House, where this President-yet-to-be will presumably live and work? And this “representative” then fails to report the meeting when applying for a security clearance? The more open the case gets, the worse it’ll stink, I…

And even if it were legal, or not specifically illegal... is that the way the Trumpoids are going to spin this?

By the way, I think things like pipeline approvals — which I whole-heartedly oppose, by the way — are less to do with left vs right, less ideological, than pragmatic or (if you prefer*) cynical. It’s just a broadly pro-capitalist government ingratiating itself with what is, all said and done, one of the most powerful…

“No recollection”, eh? Hmmm. If I remember right, “I do not recall...” and “I cannot recall...” didn’t work out so well for various Watergate conspirators.

The one-dimensional model of politics long since had its day, in my opinion, but either way, left and right in Canada hardly correspond to their USian versions. The terms don’t really translate. There are a lot of superficial similarities — and of course I’d never deny that surfaces are important — but these can also…