Sunday #2
I am not a great fan of Conrad Black because of his attitudes towards unions - he hates and and will smash them at every opportunity, I do admire his writing. In this column to the National Post he describes the delight of being a prison tutor. Just the way it is written in an understated British wry way; he talks about his experience as a, albeit reluctant, tutor of soon-to-be High School graduates, is impressive to me.
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I always read him just because that man can write. Sure has a well-earned sense of bloated self-importance; every swamp has its bull frog.
I had a similar admiration for Bill Buckley, conservative commentator extraordinaire. May he rot in hell, but an accomplished writer, to be sure.
"Every swamp has its bull frog." Everyone needs to record this quote that is bound to become an all-time classic given the source (Keeler) and given the location (The Burd Report which that particular bull-frog-in-a-china-shop sees as his personal swamp, domination-wise.)
Pity that anonymous is unable to write their way out of a paper bag.
I read an article about Lord Black in Toronto Life wherein it was revealed that his wife, Lady Black, refers to him as a silver backed gorilla. Apparently these are the dominant alpha males of the gorilla species.
Oh Conrad, rotting away in jail while Babs has to do without her gorilla. My heart bleeds.
Better a bullfrog of the swamp than a tadpole with the life expectancy of an elipse . . .
So Wally and Conrad share this characteristic: a bloated and unrequited sense of self-importance.
"Pity that anonymous is unable to write their way out of a paper bag."
On the topic of being able to write well, it appears that this sentence I quote here erroneously makes a sudden shift from the singular "anonymous" to the plural "their." This seems to be poor writing. Is Mr. Keeler new to this skill?
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