Failing Upward
Two intriguing items crossed the trellis this week. First, this tidbit from Alec Brownscombe:
*Shameless Name-Drop: John Ferguson Jr. attended this afternoon's Florida-Pittsburgh game. We exchanged pleasantries - if any reader knows what he's up to, please let me know - I didn't have the nerve to ask him.and then, in this morning's Star:
Things are so bad in Liberal circles, a story making the rounds describes a policy meeting in which Dion insisted on doing things his way because, "I was elected to lead the people of this party to leave a better planet."
"No," said Bob Rae. "You were elected because you're not me and you're not Michael Ignatieff."
On behalf of the Barilkosphere, let me be the first to congratulate John Ferguson Jr. on his senior leadership role with the Liberal Party of Canada. Does Rae have a no-movement clause now?
Also, I would love it if you took the time to read this remarkable piece about what it means to be human, written by David Foster Wallace. He died this weekend, perhaps because his humanity was just too much to carry.RIP, DFW. Thank you for shining a light.
http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_
That's fantastic work by Mr. Brownscombe.... I've always said, there's nothing that makes a "journalist" more successful than being so chicken shit, that they can't even ask an obvious and easy question of a public figure. .