After a couple months of television celebrity on the American cable news outlets posing as Captain Canada, Premier Doug Ford made the jump yesterday to the big time of US print media on the pages of the gray lady herself, the New York Times.
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So I’m talking to my friend Donald over drinks, mostly to do with the current state of affairs. A glum conversation to say the least. Many dark corners. Few bright spots.
“There are times,” Donald declares, “when I wonder if I might not be a whole lot happier if I was able to stop paying attention.”
“To what?” I inquire.
“All of it,” he says. “Politics mainly. But the whole warp and woof of history even.”
“And how would you go about that exactly?” I wonder.
“That’s the problem, isn’t it,” Donald acknowledges. “How to stop giving a fuck.”
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