Warren Kinsella is an interesting cat. I like cats, but I'm also deathly alergic to them.

Here you have a 70's punk rocker cum journalist cum lawyer cum political advisor cum journalist cum... I don't know what he is now... but anyone that's been involved in all the arenas this guy has can't help but be interesting. (How many people with his resume still take time out to review indie bands of past and present).

Well, just cause he's interesting doesn't mean that he's without flaws. He's an agressive, loud, in your face, take no prisoners kind of guy... and if you read what he has to say about himself I don't think he would deny any of that... and may, in fact, take pride in those charactistics.

Today he wrote:

# Canwest's Grant Robertson has a piece in the Post today detailing the Martinette's outrage that people are saying mean things about them: "Liberal staffers have assembled a list of what the government considers "slanderous allegations" and violations of parliamentary rules made by the opposition over the past three months. The list points a finger at 28 opposition MPs over the course of 17 days in the House -- including 19 Tories and nine Bloc members." What a load of crap. It's okay for them to slander people willy-nilly and violate Parliamentary privilege (cf. Ralph The Mouth Goodale calling Yours Truly "poison" in the House of Commons), but they shriek like banshees when someone does it to them. Sucky babies.

Its funny that he should call them 'sucky babies' when he himself would advise any political party to do just what the Liberals are doing here. "oppo" and "quick response" are a part of politics. The Liberals are taking a public record of MP's actions and words in the house and using it against them... the HORROR.

I am alergic to this kind of feigned outrage. I'm sure he does, on a personal level, think a lot of the current sitting Liberal MP's are 'sucky babies', but there is no way he actually thinks their actions are a "load of crap." He must, on some level, respect their tactics here. I mean he himself was involved in Liberal war rooms of days past and was no doubt invovled in similar tactical manouvers.

Everyone do me a favour. Go to the local used book store and pick up a library of Warren's writing. Or even pick up brand spanking new copies of his books on Amazon.ca. Make sure "kicking ass in canadian politics" is one of the books. Put a couple of bucks in Warren's pockets and then bop him on the head with his books every time he writes something like the paragraph above.

Maybe he'd smarten up a bit and tranform from an interesting cat to a cool guy.

andre