Jack Layton: For finally getting rid of the baggy muscle shirts and buying a proper t-shirt, Pride thanks you. Your NDP members thank you. Canada thanks you.
Fine, it’s not perfect: Tucked in shirt, khakis, ugly belt, visibily-holstered Blackberry. But there’s a lot happening here that’s a vast improvement. The orange hat is cute, the wristband is great, and we’re a big fan of the cowboy-style rainbow bandana. And, though it’s not visible in this picture, you’re riding a tandem bicycle with Olivia, and that’s just so adorable it kind of hurts.
And before any of you go off on the negative (belt, pants, Blackberry), let us just remind you of Prides past:
So, everyone, can we have a big round of applause for Uncle Jack, who receives this year’s Pride Award for Most Improved Sartorial Performance?
June 26th, 2006 at 1:08 am - Edit
You’ve got to admit, though, that the “Layton Homosexual” t-shirts were pretty great - if only because he actually went for it.
June 26th, 2006 at 2:07 am - Edit
The NDP with their agenda are ruinning the lives of average Canadians. Pushing for less accountability on native reserves? Yes, thats the NDP. Why don’t the NDPers just move to a socialist paradise if they think it would be so great?
Steve
Kanter On Politics
June 26th, 2006 at 9:10 am - Edit
Steve,
What’s the story here? Do you automatically post this message on any blog referencing Layton? This post had nothing to do with the reserve issue. I mean, you could have got a rant in on same-sex marriage or something without being too far off-topic… :)
June 26th, 2006 at 10:31 am - Edit
To be fair, the NDP with their shirts are ruining the lives of average Canadians.
I don’t understand why they don’t just move to some kind of tank top paradise if they like tank tops so much.
June 26th, 2006 at 6:44 pm - Edit
Quite honestly, I would rather we kicked the Conservatives out myself. Let them go to their capitalist paradise (if there ever was such a thing) in the US and we’ll all stay here and enjoy our socialist paradise.
June 27th, 2006 at 9:36 am - Edit
Naomi Klein wrote a great essay in which she depicted Iraq as the ultimate neocon experiment in completely deregulated markets (since the US moved in and stripped every trade and regulatory law they could right away. Iraq supposedly could have been a capitalist paradise once the dust settled, if not for the fact that free market capitalism just doesn’t work.
June 27th, 2006 at 7:51 pm - Edit
You forgot to mention the moustache. It’s all about the moustache.
July 2nd, 2006 at 5:45 pm - Edit
But…I liked the cutsy orange cowboy hat. Of the three outfits, that’s the one I prefer.