Month: May 2012

Continuing on with the theme of political machismo, we should talk about the degree to which specific, everyday language reinforces the notions of machismo. Common expressions of attack against liberally minded or leftwing people use metaphors designed to view such people as weak. For example, environmentalists are often referred to

R. v. Ducharme, 2012 MBCA 35 is a helpful source for the proposition that a judicial officer may rely on what is submitted during a sentencing hearing unless there is a dispute on the facts:   Absent a dispute on the facts, a judge can rely, without further proof, upon

…me. About I week ago, I was critical of a Moncton Times and Transcript story because it was trivial. It was about the world shortage of helium – and the story reassured us that Moncton still had plenty of it for balloons. It was a trivial story. But I should have

    The Occupy movement is busy all over the world today. Standing up for your rights and the rights of all those that will come after, even if you think they are a bunch of socialist pinko commies for doing so. Odd isn’t it? Our forebearers fought so hard

Here’s an interesting idea.   The best and quickest way to restore peace to Afghanistan is for Western forces to pack up and get out. “Most insurgent fighters are not interested in a Taliban-dominated Afghanistan or in Deobandi creeds, let alone in the geopolitical goals of the Pakistani generals that support

News Corp boss Rupe Murdoch showed “willful blindness” toward the behavior of News of the World staffers in the lead-up to the British phone hacking scandal, according to a report released Tuesday by a committee of British legislators. “The cross-party culture, media and sport committee concluded that Murdoch is “not

Enbridge pipeline gets thumbs-down from B.C. NDP – British Columbia – CBC News: ‘via Blog this’ Brilliant move by the NDP. It does a number of things: its makes the NDP the first of the governing parties to make an official stand on the pipeline project and puts pressure on

If you’re in Montreal, be sure and check out this marvelous installation in the Quartier des spéctacles, right across the street from Place des Arts. The viceo was made last spring, but yesterday, they were just as nice.

Well, I’ve always walked a lot. Maybe I should try this.