Let’s all face it. Slinger’s humorous column in the Toronto Star usually isn’t very. It appears however that when he cuts the cutesy Dave Barry impressions and kicks in the surrealist Dave Barry impressions, well, he can really cook. Check this shit out, in which he maybe does or maybe doesn’t poke accurate surrealist fun at Ontario Harris-Replacement and Premier Ernie Eves. I don’t know if it’s accurate – I just don’t live there anymore – but I’m pretty sure it’s funny. Perhaps he’s suggesting Eve’s policies are surreal. Damned if I know.

“In the meantime, he is busy preparing the speech from the throne which the lieutenant-governor will read while playing half-court basketball one-on-one with Vince Carter, or from an operating table in Mount Sinai Hospital while undergoing elective surgery to have a growth removed from the radiator of his Buick.”

Another refreshing initiative from your Premier