We begin with kudos to Artur Wilczynski a retired Canadian Ambassador who posted these words on top of a Justin Trudeau tweet containing a photo of the PM and his teenage son wearing pink shirts and endorsing the Billion Dollar Box office smash, Barbie. The photo has attracted thousands upon thousands of very dumb very homophobic right-wing push back. Wilcynzki says this is a great pic of a dad going to a movie with his son. The negative reaction to this is messed up. That two guys wearing pink & like Barbie threaten a cohort of right-wingers is ridiculous. If your masculinity is threatened by men wearing pink, you need to get a life. True True True. And so often the case on so much of the social media attack on Trudeau. Something about him has always been threatening to Canadian masculinity. I took a lot of incoming on Twitter over the weekend for saying Many Conservative men think everyone who isn’t their cup of tea, is Gay. Might be the manhood thing they’re not comfy with.

By the way “Barbie” has now earned more than $1 billion at the box office, breaking a record for female directors that was previously held by Patty Jenkins, who directed “Wonder Woman.” The female director of Barbie is Greta Gerwig. If you still watch Oscar you will see her there.

A Ukrainian woman and we don’t yet know her name was part of a plot aimed at assassinating Zelenskyy the President of Ukraine during his visit last week to Mykolaiv, a southeastern city near the front. The woman has been detained by Ukrainian authorities.

Australia’s Angie Karan has posted a photo of a young woman holding a hunting rifle, smiling broadly, her foot on the corpse of a freshly killed Giraffe. Her father is in the photo looking so proud of his daughter. Karen writes A brainwashed child slaughtered this beautiful giraffe just for fun encouraged by her psychopath father who is a trophy hunter. To teach a child to be cruel towards defenceless animals should be treated as a case of child abuse. Who can disagree with that? Too many, apparently. In support of Angie Karan, I want to say that Manipulating a child to receive pleasure from the destruction of an innocent animal, vividly illustrates that the notion of human superiority is palpably false.

What’s palpably true is that one of the best movies ever made was launched on this day August 7th, 31 years ago. Unforgiven was an unbelievably good Western, shot in Canada, with Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman. It won best picture and best director, for Clint Eastwood. He played an aging retired outlaw and killer who had one more act left in him as Bill Munny. And yes the movie made big money at the Box Office. You will not be forgiven if you don’t watch Unforgiven at least once. I have watched it at least a dozen times. My only problem with it is the scenery makes me homesick for Southern Alberta. I’m Charles Adler with 3 minutes that matter.