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Dred Tory: Harperium In Excelsis: Game of Drones, Part I
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Thursday, April 12, 2012. Harperium In Excelsis: Game of Drones, Part I. The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God,. And there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die,. And their departure is taken for misery,. And their going from us to be utter destruction,. But they are in peace. For though they be punished in the sight of men,. Yet is their hope full of immortality. And having been a little chastened, they shall be greatly rewarded,. With the mocking demand ...
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Dred Tory: Season's Creepings
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Monday, December 26, 2011. In describing the pagan desecration of holy places, early medieval accounts such as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Observe a euphemistic fastidiousness that, while acknowledging the Viking zeal to denude shrines of their relics and tabernacles of their gold and silver, leave implicit or entirely unuttered the grosser heathen habits of profanation, such as lustily evacuating or performing bloody sacrifices upon the altars of monasteries and abbeys. In post-war Canadian history in or...
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Dred Tory: November 2009
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Monday, November 30, 2009. I have never strayed very far from the psychic precincts of my Janus birth; my mind is solstitial year-long, and I've been cursed with New Year's ambivalence all my life. My utopia has always been the immeasurable edge where endings and beginnings meet, where is hosted the mysterious, transcendent flowering of the. Be It is miraculous. J.R.R Tolkien called this a " eucatastrophe. The first is from the film version of. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Tomas and Tereza are driv...
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Dred Tory: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Warren Kinsella*
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Friday, April 13, 2012. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Warren Kinsella*. In homage to one of Canada's most spectacularly, narcissistically, and tunelessly pretentious descents. Into abject mid-life crisis. And, speaking of decadence, allow me a short intermission. 1) Kinsella's use of a Barney doll. To ridicule the Leader of the Opposition's Pentecostalism in what became the first overtly sectarian attack ever launched in the course of a Canadian federal election? 2) Kinsella's key role. Over an offhand...
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Dred Tory: June 2011
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Friday, June 3, 2011. A Fiasco Brought to You by Harper’s Cabinet of Callow Cretins: One Down, Thousands More to Go! As far as we can tell, Stephen Harper made clear that his vision of the Middle East “peace process” [*cough*] required that it evolve according to norms. Not only totally unacceptable to the Arab world but completely contrary to Canada’s traditional Middle East policy, to the 1967 UN resolution. Of being utterly unaware of what “1967” actually means to the Israeli-Palestinian c...Meanwhile...
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Dred Tory: Harperium In Excelsis: Game of Drones, Part II
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Monday, April 1, 2013. Harperium In Excelsis: Game of Drones, Part II. Any attempt at a socio-political diagnosis of North America’s current condition that hopes to claim the slightest dram of explanatory validity must convincingly account for the undeniable fact that the “New World” is afflicted with at least one collective distemper utterly unprecedented in the cultural history of the West. Of societal moral squalor. It was the powerful Praetorian Guard. Species of American moral idiocy, watch the slow...
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Dred Tory: April 2013
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Monday, April 29, 2013. Harperium In Excelsis: Game of Drones, Part III. Several of the past month’s news stories force us to derive a number of painful yet unsurprising conclusions about Stephen Harper’s caucus, party, and supporters. I present below a list that is, sadly, not exhaustive. To wit, our Harperoids. Are not averse to watching the Museum of Civilization be bizarrely repurposed. Has any predictive relevance. Flanked by an honour guard of Navy SEALs;. And is thus desperate to suppress;. In a C...
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Dred Tory: A Fiasco Brought to You by Harper’s Cabinet of Callow Cretins: One Down, Thousands More to Go!
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Friday, June 3, 2011. A Fiasco Brought to You by Harper’s Cabinet of Callow Cretins: One Down, Thousands More to Go! As far as we can tell, Stephen Harper made clear that his vision of the Middle East “peace process” [*cough*] required that it evolve according to norms. Not only totally unacceptable to the Arab world but completely contrary to Canada’s traditional Middle East policy, to the 1967 UN resolution. Of being utterly unaware of what “1967” actually means to the Israeli-Palestinian c...Meanwhile...
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Dred Tory: February 2010
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010. We, Her Majesty's Petitioners. Now, I expect this venture to be substantially more successful than the first, if only because a "successful" petition is merely one that actually gets read by its sponsoring Member of Parliament whilst the walls of the House dully vibrate to the yawns of drowsy hacks and the fingering of Blackberries. As much as I would love to see this petition lead to the meaningful change it urges, it is not the. And so, without further ado, here we go.
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