Following her death on April 8, the bitter row over Margaret Thatcher’s legacy continues – with a campaign to get the song “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead”, from the movie The Wizard of Oz, to number 1 on the U.K. music charts. The former Prime Minister, whose time in office was marked
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper’s New Job
He is opening a restaurant and Saloon. Source of Picture: The Huffington Post.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Our Rape Culture: Rehtaeh Parsons’ Unfortunate Legacy
And another one gone – a victim of assault and revenge porn enacted and filmed by a bunch of teenaged boys who had more power than they might have ever imagined: they could kill from a distance. As Elizabeth Renzetti says of these double-barrel assaults, they are, “not just an
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Enough Snow Already!
We’ve had snow in April before, but for the last several years it’s been warm enough for me to eat breakfast on the back porch, albeit usually with a coat on. Last year took the cake: the week March 21 saw really balmy temperatures: the Youtube video below made of
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: Cyber Friendship, Love and Grief
Before computers, I relied on a monthly magazine for my connection to other caregivers. I was a new mother of a baby with severe disabilities and that magazine was called “Exceptional Parent”(now re-named EParent Magazine). I would rifle through the magazine in search of the page titled ‘Letters’ and there,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Remembering Jonathan Winters
If you are of a certain age, you will remember Jonathan Winters, probably the most nimble comedic mind that the twentieth century produced. As a lad, he was one of the few people that could make me genuinely laugh out loud. The inspiration for people like Robin Williams, another comedic
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Arkansas Hires Notorious Private Contractor To Clean Up Mayflower Tar Sands Spill, Same Firm Also Contracted For KXL
Arkansas’ Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has contracted out the “independent analysis of the cleanup” of the ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill to Witt O’Brien’s, a firm with a history of oil spill cover-ups, a DeSmogBlog investigation reveals. At his April 10 press conference about the Mayflower spill response, AG McDaniel confirmed that Exxon had turned
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Creepy Cull of Female Protagonists – Jimquisition
No objectification going on here Ms.Facetitsass. None at all. Embedding in wordpress sucks. Thus, I am only able to provide the link to the video I would like you to watch. Jimquisition, featured on the pop culture gaming site The Escapist, puts crass behaviour and bombast squarely in the centre
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomas Walkom offers an insider’s look at outsourcing: Arlene says any outsourcing scheme begins with the institution’s senior management. Usually, she says, the aim is to transfer about 60 per cent of the affected jobs — often in back-shop areas like information technology
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Most Persuasive Arguments for Legalizing Drugs
A retired U.S. police captain makes an utterly compelling case for abandoning the war on drugs.
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5850…CBC Sez Liberals Have The Big Mo
For those of us who watch sports on TV are constantly reminded by the play-by-play people how key momentum is. The future starts Sunday. WFDS
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Wicked Witch war of words: ‘Has Thatcher bashing crossed a line?’ Well, er… no!
The Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz. Below, Ezra Levant in an orange wig with a can of Orange Crush mocks Jack Layton’s funeral. RIP or give it a rest? Oh my – quelle horreur! – naughty Britons still appalled by the depredations visited upon their
Continue readingCathie from Canada: "Those" people, Premier Wall?
Premier Wall gets called out by NDP leader Cam Broten for incoherent blather about gay people — but of course Wall is not homophobic because some of his staff are gay or some gay person is nearby or freedom or something….First Broten asked Wall about whether the Saskatchewan Education department
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the War on Alexandre
Alexandre Boulerice is one of my favourite MPs.He's a big guy, and when he gets up in the Commons and shouts at Stephen Harper, you can see the tyrant flinch wince wobble.Which is a spectacle I rather enjoy eh?So you can imagine how outraged I was to see Great Wobbly Leader launch
Continue readingYappa Ding Ding: Fingers crossed
I admit it: I’m a worrywart. At our last leadership convention in 2006 Conservatives played dirty tricks, circulating fake buttons and posters to try to discourage delegates from voting for Bob Rae. Has Harper dropped another little turd to surprise us with on Sunday? It’s probably fine; I haven’t heard
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
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Continue readingMorton's Musings: Acid reflux provides a defence to Over 80
R. v. Coffey, 2013 ONCJ 178 holds: [32] I find that I accept Mr. Coffey’s evidence that he was actually experiencing acid reflux symptoms during the breath tests. I found his evidence credible and he was unshaken in cross-examination. Having come to this conclusion, I find that
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #mtlqc13 – Day 1 Review
Based on my posts leading up to the NDP’s federal convention, it shouldn’t come as much surprise that my main focus is on the substantive policy debates. And the first day saw some positive developments on that front. Rather than sticking to the party’s chosen list of topics for discussion,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Almost there!
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