It was a comment yesterday that The Mound of Sound (a.k.a. The Disaffected Lib) made in response to a cartoon I posted depicting the much beleaguered Senator Wallin that made me think. He reminded me of an earlier time when there was honour associated with public service, and expressed the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joseph Stiglitz comments on the wider lessons we should take from Detroit’s bankruptcy: Detroit’s travails arise in part from a distinctive aspect of America’s divided economy and society. As the sociologists Sean F. Reardon and Kendra Bischoff have pointed out, our country is
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Helping health units that hate gambling.
“For some individuals, gambling is a devastating problem,” says the Ottawa health unit. From this you can deduce that the unit is somewhat negative about the siren lure of casinos. This is in response to a recent question about casinos from the city council. With this level of response to
Continue readingThings Are Good: The B Team – A Plan B for the Economy
The economic stupidity of a few years back is still causing problems and the fact that the wrongdoers got bailouts for their transgressions hasn’t helped. Even years later economies haven’t recovered and the class divisions within multiple societies have widened. It’s time for an alternative to this current form of
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Who’s the shill here? 14-year-old girl destroys Kevin O’Leary on Monsanto, GMO labeling.
Delicious.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Thag want be millionaire!
It had been an unlucky hunting season. First of all, their big man, Grunk, got himself gored by a woolly rhinoceros in the first week of the expedition. Grunk — always the big swinging dick that Grunk — had tried … Continue reading →
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: From Dream To Obsession To Delusion
Having nixed the Northern Gateway Pipeline with their over the top rhetoric — and with the future of the Keystone Pipeline in doubt — you would think that the Harper Conservatives would re-examine their sales pitch. Instead, Tim Harper writes in today’s Toronto Star, they are using the same strategy
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, August 14, 2013: When the next Ernest Hemingway dies, who will own his Facebook account? – Quartz Number of ‘Virtual’ Law Practices Shows Decline in 2013 ABA Technology Survey Lac-Mégantic disaster railway can no longer operate in Canada The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Being an MRA – Feminists Stole my Ice Cream!!
Pretty much all you need to know about the motivations of your average MRA dude. 🙂 Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Feminists Stole My Ice Cream, MRA, Red Pill
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Paywalls will not be the print media’s Holy Grail
You may have noticed yesterday if you visited the Toronto Star that they have implemented their new paywall system. As with the Globe and Mail and others, you’re allowed a certain amount of free specific articles to view (with the Star I believe it is 10) before you’re then required
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Five Myths of Terrorism
From Michael Shermer, monthly columnist for Scientific American, a respected science magazine founded in 1845. Link to Dr. Shermer’s complete article, Five Myths of Terrorism. It is worth reading, particularly if you wonder if actual risks justify wholesale trampling of human rights and freedoms. The myth of pure evil, which holds
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Summer Reading List
A compendium of 100 biases in the way we all think, described in easy-to-understand language, The Art of Thinking Clearly should be required reading in the provincial government these days. Keep a pad of paper and a pencil beside you as you read this book. Jot down the biases you
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Census and the Dark Harperland Summer
I've never seen a summer like this one. So grey, so cold, so ominous. And as it turns out so Harperland eh?For more proof today that if Great Ugly Leader has his way we'll all end up living in perpetual darkness. Read more »
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Canadian Lemmings
From the New Yorker, August 5th ed.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Giant Corp Nestle’s Get A Free Ride From The BC Liberals
Richard ‘Hub’ HughesPolitical Blogger Christy Clark’s BC Liberals are great managers of our multi billion dollar indebted province. Why life is so easy in BC that we allow private multi nationals like Nestle to pump out our water for free. Now there is a great business to be in! Water
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Ottawa entitlement syndrome
Was there ever a truer phrase spoken in Ottawa than when David Dingwall told parliament that he was “entitled to his entitlements”? Its all of Ottawa in a nutshell — insular, egotistical, disdainful of petty restrictions and ules (except, of course, for refugee dental bills and EI claimants.) Today we
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Breakthrough? Autism Speaks Recognizes Autism Heterogeneity!
Rethinking Autism Variation and Complexity by Lynn Waterhouse is a recent work which provides a thorough, expert and extremely well researched picture of the variation and complexity of autism spectrum disorders. Hopefully the rest of the professional and academic autism community will read Rethinking Autism and come to grips with
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Don’t let Canada become a NAFTA Pollution Haven
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 In 1994 Canadians were worried that NAFTA could see our country become a “pollution haven”, and to address those concerns Canada signed on to the NAFTA Environmental Side-Agreement. Twenty years later we are facing just such a fate. Please join us in telling the Commission for
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats meeting friends.
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