Author: Joey deVilla

No, that’s not one of my cousins.

Crazed reactionary politics, a dislike for gays, revulsion for places like Ontario and most places east, claims to a surplus of money and oil, oil, oil. If it weren’t for the general support for Israel, all-out distrust of Islam and the fact that some dear friends call it home, it might be fair to call Alberta “Saudi Arabia with cowboy hats”.

Here’s what passes for humour in a entry in The Shotgun, the blog of the Western Standard magazine…

It’s not all like that, but sometimes I do wonder if Turner (who lives there with his lovely wife Ashley) gets static for being “from Ontario”.

[by way of Ashley Bristowe]

At the risk of turning this blog into The Wedding Blog (“All weddings,

all the time!”), I’d like to congratulate John Bristowe, friend and

fellow techie, on his engagement to Fiona. Nicely done, you two!

The Western Standard, a Canadian conservative magazine, is hosting a writing contest:

Do you have a hot news story that you’d like to write about? Or maybe a strong opinion about something in the news?

Well, now’s your chance. Enter the Western Standard’s writing contest,

and you could win cash prizes – and have your work published in our

magazine!

You’d better enter soon – there are thousands of dollars in cash prizes

up for grabs, and EVERYONE who enters gets a free, year-long

subscription to the magazine, too – a $75 value! (If you already have a

subscription, you can give the extra one to a friend.)

I’ve

got a boatload of technical articles to write, so I’ll probably be a

bit too busy to put in a submission. In case you were looking to make

some extra cash and a brand new writing career, you may want to consult

its blog, The Shotgun,

for some writing tips. As a service, here are some more jumping-off

points for articles that should curry favour with the judging panel:

• Darth Vader: That Liberal Pussy
• “That Colby Cosh Feller Looks A Little Liberal Sometimes Too. Keep a 28-Gauge Trained On Him.”
• “And once all the CBC employees are back at work, that’s when we set off the fertilizer bomb”
• Holy shit, you mean Swift’s A Modest Proposal Was Satire?
• Ruhipnol + Texas Dating Sites = Green Card, Here I Come!
• Ontario Must Be Destroyed
• Quebec Too
• Oh Yeah, The Darkies, Too
• And While We’re At It, The Homos
• And Did We Mention CBC Employees?