by Sean Orr | The Atlantic runs a response to that New York Times article penned by Neo-con extraordinaire, David Frum. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that this guy was George W. Bush’s speechwriter. This is the same guy who probably came up with lines like “they hate our freedoms” and “the axis of evil”. He’s a member of the damned American Enterprise Institute and he wrote a book about how to end the war on terror with Richard Perle, the architect of the War on Terror. And the best he can come up with is that Harper isn’t Francisco Franco? Thanks, Dave.

It’s just a thought, but I wonder if Frum and his sister (a Conservative Canadian senator) were read the Ayn Rand version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe when they were kids…

Maybe they should have been reading The Handmaiden’s Tale instead — Margaret Atwood column pulled, re-posted on National Post website. Well, you know what they say: ‘hair today, gone tomorrow’…

Because when a nuanced critique won’t do, just photoshop dildos into Harper’s hands.

Because as Frum’s Atlantic piece fails to mention, If We Want to Ask Stephen Harper Questions, We Have to Give His Party $78,000.

Which leads to the Syrup Trap of the day: Harper refuses to answer questions while getting haircut.

But wait, it gets weirder: Rob Ford Says Brother Would Run If Canada’s Harper Steps Down. Is this some sort of Trump-ian false flag conspiracy to make Harper look like the option of sanity?

Meanwhile, someone apparently bereft of irony created the hashtag We Are Earl Cowan in reference to the angry Harperite who swore at journalists and who may have also told Olivia Chow to back to China. Wow.

Gary Beamish, Green Party Candidate, Will Urge Supporters To Vote NDP. Gary Beamish is Cat from Red Dwarf after he got his vanity sucked out by a Polymorph. Either that, or he’s a total hero.

Meanwhile, In Bizarro Vancouver, 25,000 households declare less income than they spend on housing alone. Elsewhere in Bizzaro Vancouver, dishwasher lives in expensive condo and complains about expensive condos.

News of the day: Young people drinking too much, says UVic study. “Following this, science discovers water is wet and a groundbreaking report on rocks. ‘They’re hard’, says leading geologist…” – Scotford

Speaking of young people drinking, the Commercial Drive DIY Street Party happened and, like, not even one person was stabbed, in spite of the concerns of NIMBYs who claimed, spectacularly, that Grandview Park was, in fact, their park. “MacDonald said the May Day party was loud, lasted until the early hours of the morning, saw participants urinate and defecate on residents’ properties and produced tons of garbage…” Also known as Gastown, every single night.

Peak Vancouver of the day: Love lock survey to decide new sculpture location in Vancouver. Best comment: “100 meters north of the mermaid in Stanley Park”.

Facebook Group of the day: Fill the Strait. “Can’t afford a house in Vancouver? Rather live at the bottom of the sea than in Surrey? Simple solution: Fill the Strait.