It’s Trudeau’s Friday afternoon special
I have elected to append the 'lipstick on a pig' cliché—which I personally consider vulgar and impolite, but occasionally apt—to Justin Trudeau’s latest Friday afternoon special, the appointment of seven new Senators by a panel of people he appointed. The appointees’ appointees.
TORONTO—The etymology of the phrase “lipstick on a pig” is politically timely. Bear with me, here.
Pigs, it turns out, have been bandied about in human expression for a long time. There is a plethora of porcine proverbs. In the Bible, there is Matthew 7:6, “pearls before swine.” M...
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