James O’Keefe strikes again.

On such a lovely day:

Kari Anne Roy, a writer and mom of three from Austin, said the ugly incident began earlier this month after a neighbor she didn’t know spotted her 6-year-old son playing in a field across the street from their house. The woman brought the boy home, saying he needed to be inside “with an adult,” Roy wrote on her blog.

Later, a knock on the door:

“The police officer asked if my son had been outside alone. She asked why I thought it was OK for him to be unsupervised,” Roy wrote.

Not done yet:

Days later…an agent from child protective services showed up to her home and questioned her kids, who are 6, 8 and 12. Roy said the agent spoke to the children alone, one-by-one, and quizzed them about drugs, alcohol, pornography and how often they bathed.

All because a boy had been playing outside, in a park visible from his house.

“My 8-year-old was very concerned about the questions they asked her, about had she seen people’s private parts or movies of that sort of thing. These are things she had never really thought of or had known existed. I was humiliated and really angry after that. Really, really angry.”

Economists are still trying to explain Canada’s economic success of the 90’s. The old Liberal fiscal policies prove that doing the opposite of Keynesian economics is successful. I’d add that I think Mike Harris and Ralph Klein had a bit to do about that time period, too.
This kind of thing won’t go over well with the new progressive Liberal party of today.

From the “Are we in hell yet?” files, Robert “Errand Boy” Fife tweets –

Brian Mulroney called Liberals to say Sun Media will apologize tomorrow for offensive rant by Ezra Levant.

If it’s true, it’s a huge mistake.

Gerard Depardieu admits to drinking 14 bottles of wine a day.

“Previously Depardieu made headlines after he was banned from an Air France flight for urinating in the aisle..”

At this point a slight left turn of the dimmer switch would finish him off:

An adamant Charlie Rose, on Thursday night, was astounded that there could be any opposition to the fight against climate change as he blurted: “Where is the resistance?! What stands in the way of something that clearly threatens the planet?”

Umm, science? Doing a bit of your own research?

From Scott Locklin’s “Never Trust Anyone Who Hasn’t Been Punched in the Face“:

Every great civilization reaches a point of prosperity where it is possible to live your entire life as a pacifist without any serious consequences. Many civilizations have come to the state of devolution represented by modern Berkeley folkways, from wife-swapping to vegetarianism. These ideas don’t come from a hardscrabble existence in contact with nature’s elemental forces; they are the inevitable consequence of being an effete urban twit removed from meaningful contact with reality.

Related: Bret Easton Ellis’ Generation Wuss.