gritchik: Men (and women) behaving badly

Margaret Wente today suggests that if we’re tired of political sex scandals we should simply bar the entire male gender from the field. Bullshit. At best her column is meaningless babble designed to annoy readers and, at worst, sexist. As a feminist, a partner to a man and the mother of a son, I reject […]

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gritchik: Weinergate – NSFW

Okay, I have to be honest: when I first heard about this, I thought it was a joke.  And then a friend sent me the pictures.  There were, indeed, tweets of Lepp’s private bits.  Taken late last night before being scrubbed – although we all know by now, the internet is forever. The Sun exposed […]

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gritchik: Back to it

I’ve taken a bit of a break from posting since the election – haven’t been terribly inspired by anything.  But I, as a liberal Liberal, sure haven’t been spending my time moping about the #elxn 41 results.  Fuck it.  We’ll come back, we always do.  Democracy’s messy and while my greatest fear came true – […]

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gritchik: And so it begins

Two Supreme court justices announce retirements. Both were appointed by Liberal prime ministers.
Majority in the House. Majority in the Senate. And now he gets to appoint more top-court justices.
Still don’t believe that Harper’s going to …

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