Catpaw - diary of an angry cat

I have a proposal for the world.
Let’s pick an isolated spot on the globe and call it the World’s Naughty Corner. Whenever a politician or any member of government pulls a boneheaded move we can ship them off to the Naughty Corner.
I propose we use St. Helena - hell it was good enough for Napoleon [...]

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Here we go again!
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has filed notice he will be launching an unprecedented lawsuit against the opposition Liberal party and its leader Stephane Dion claiming both the liberal party and Dion have libeled him. In a cursory check of Canadian parlimentary history, I can’t find an instance of any other leader [...]

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I’m at my usual place - my favourite cafe, eating and drinking cappuccinos and have begun to ponder the decline of the articulate insult. Insulting one’s opponents was an art form no so long ago. It took flair and certain amount of literary panache to come up with an intelligent insult. Today, alas, insulting someone [...]

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City Hall was set to close the rinks - all of them - to cut costs. Not once did the greed hounds of public office look to their own perks and budgets to cut costs.

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