Table of Contents

Introduction: Inclusive Me Out

EMINENT CANADIANS
Don Cherry: The People's GG
A Boswell's Life
Michaëlle Shines by Default
The Complete Soldier

CELEBRITY
Let Us Excori8 Live 8
A Saint Sorely Taxed
Ego Warriors
There's Something About Cassandra

CARTOON CRISIS
Under the Cover of Faith
The Case of Salman Rushdie Is Fresh Again
Coming to a Human Rights Commission Near You

OBAMA RISING
Power of Speech
Only Words
Canada Could Learn from Obama
She Came to Praise Him
A Dream Divided
He's Not God, But He Is America
Barackwatch
A Clichéd Dud

BAD ENGLISH
Nothing Is Sacred
Silly Bitching

THE EVIL THAT MEN DO
Saudi Hospitality
Because They Were Jews
Castro's Useful Idiots
Eichmann in Tehran
A Ferocious Parable

LITERATURE
Image of a Poet
Pamela Anderson's Outstanding Oeuvre
Sanity Takes a Holiday
Climb Every Mount Doom
This Is the Life
Doggerel of War

WAR ON TERROR
They Kill Because They Can
Fanatical Minds Defy Logic
What We Are Fighting For
The Real Truth

GREAT AND GOOD
Power Based on Faith, Not Arms
Solzhenitsyn's Stature
Out of His Tree

THE PLEASURES OF SMOKING
Money to Burn
A Joint Is a Smoke
Great News out of Vancouver

REPUTATIONS
The Bush Paradox
From Brian's Lips to Peter's Microphone
Adrienne Clarkson Presents
Paul Martin Fights On

ART
Eros by Any Other Name
Mediocrity and Mischief

THE ENVIRONMENT
A Caring Heart
Al Gore, Recycled
Cars Are Smokers, Too
Numbers Game
Despicable Mask for a Weak Argument
The New Inquisition

CANADIAN IDENTITY
Without Hockey
One Nation
I'm with the Brand
Hands Off Hortons

SCANDAL
Completely Foxed
Bernier's Girlfriend

CANADA AND THE U.S.
How We Flagged the American Bull
Home Truths for Both Countries
Our Camp Coffee

HUMAN RIGHTS
Saudi Justice
Flagrantly Islamophobic
Real Rights and Rights Commissions
A Blot on Democracy

CATASTROPHE
Spirit Behind the Giving
On Our Blindness to Disaster
The Bleakest Day

NEWFOUNDLAND
Last Dice Game
Victims of Stereotyping
The Peace of Twillingate
Meteorological Madness
One Voice that Counts
The Elusive Flavour of Our Politics
Danny Williams Has Gone Too Far

FAITH
Play Mystic for Me
Tolerance Must Flow Two Ways
The James Cameron Code

THE PATH TO POWER
Dion Buried Alive
Coalition for a Day
Grit Miracle
Coalition of Unintended Consequences
It Might Have Been

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Rex Murphy, who needs no introduction, left his outpost home in Newfoundland to attend university at the age of fifteen. Since that time, which includes a spell at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he has been writing and talking. His skills in that area have made him one of Canada’s most-watched and best-read commentators, while his speeches have earned standing ovations from coast to coast. A frequent presence on CBC television and radio, including a regular commentary spot with “Point of View,” Rex writes a weekly column for The Globe and Mail.

Reviews

"Wit, sarcasm, humour, verbal gymnastics . . . are here, together with some surprising post-scripts added with the benefit of hindsight. . . . Murphy begs — eloquently, of course — to be read."
— The London Free Press