Alberta electorate getting a chance to give itself a headache

By Lethbridge Herald on April 29, 2023.

Editor:

I have long had an empirical turn of mind and therefore firmly believe in evidence-based analysis. 

It is a fool’s game to plunge in without having first tested the proverbial waters. Likewise it is futile to claim knowledge without some basis of tested fact. 

You may have heard, for instance, that it hurts to hit yourself in the head with a hammer. This always struck me as a presumptuous claim. So I determined to hit myself in the head with a hammer in order to tease the truth out of this old saw. 

WONK!  Wuddya know? – it hurt.

Flash forward to May 29, 2023 – the upcoming provincial election. The Alberta electorate is being given the opportunity to hit itself in the head with a hammer by casting a vote for the conniving and factually-challenged Danielle Smith and her coterie of bumbling, neo-Darwinist, conspiracy-addled, convoy-hardened poodles.

Let me save everyone the trouble and the miserable post-encounter headache. I have tried such an experiment so that you need not suffer the pain. If you hit yourself in the head with this really big hammer it will hurt – really, really bad.

At times like this, of course, it’s best to turn to the great minds of yesteryear. Yes, it was Yogi Berra who offered these immortal words to live by:  “When you get to a fork in the road – take it.”

Phil Burpee

Pincher Creek