No, human rights — including womens’ rights — are not like free speech rights which some (though not I) believe can and should be legally curtailed in the interest of the so-called “greater good”. In fact, the state’s prerogative to impose its will ends where my uterus begins. Human Rights
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Internets broken?
Is your internet connection fast and frisky today? Mine neither: it is, in fact, cataclysmically slow. I was just going to phone Shaw and give them another verbal asskicking when I found this: Anonymous is claiming responsibility for a cyberattack against Chinese websites — one that may also be having
Continue readingDon Martin, my new hero
…second only to the guy who sang Bohemian Rhapsody in the cop car. And that’s saying something: CTV appeared to be considering disciplinary action for one of its high-profile Parliament Hill television hosts in the wake of an incident Thursday night at a post-budget party attended by Finance Minister Jim
Continue readingDear Rex Murphy/National Post
If you’re going to write about the Trayvon Martin case, at least pretend to care enough to get the dead kid’s name right: “Trevyor”? Twice?? I am available part-time for editing work… Call me…
Continue readingMama mia Mama mia Mama mia let me go
Drunk, arrested, and on the way to the local constabulary in the back of a cop car: could there be a more perfect time to burst into a full rendition of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”? It kind of makes sense when you think about it: I don’t know of any other
Continue readingFree Speech!
“Speechies“? Hello?? Is this thing on?
Continue readingSantorum’s House of Fear
That dull roar you hear is the sound of All The Internets laughing uproariously at Rick Santorum’s new, desperately dramatic campaign commercial, “Obamaville”, a glimpse at America’s dystopian future under a second Obama term. “Obamaville” is a post-apocalyptic Anytown USA, where religious freedom has been snuffed out like a candle,
Continue readingWoodworth’s Wank Revisited
Like many progressives, fern hill is looking for a way to unite the opposition parties, and she may have found one. Regular readers will recall MP Stephen Woodworth’s bilious bleating on Twitter about “when life begins”, which unlike most Canadians, Woodworth contends is “in the petri dish”. His embryo-obsessed Twit-jaculations
Continue readingFor the Seriously Lazy
I’m not just talking about people who like to sleep in, or lounge in their La-Z-Boy®, or let the dog out of their truck half a mile from home so Rover can chase them the rest of the way and they can say they’ve “walked the dog”. No, I’m talking
Continue readingDick Cheney recovering from Heart Transplant
In other news, punchlines write themselves! Have at ‘er in the comments. Meanwhile, here’s a Cheney Humour blast from the past:
Continue readingThe Vagina Ideologues
Oh joy, rapture and crapture! More excited delirium from the “Government-Small-Enough-to-Crawl-Up-Your-Vagina-and-Police-Your-Uterus” crowd: Conservative Arizona lawmakers hope Arizona will join a handful of other states in banning most abortions after 20 weeks of gestation, as proposed in House Bill 2036. House Bill 2800, which would strip Planned Parenthood of federal funds
Continue readingBanksters vs. Vatican
Not even the necrotic nerve centre Of Bronze-Age morality and misogyny known as The Vatican is safe from the Banksters’ grasping paws: JP Morgan Chase is closing the Vatican bank’s account with an Italian branch of the U.S. banking giant because of concerns about a lack of transparency at the
Continue readingTsk, what a shame
And the beat-down goes on at Komen for the Cure. Well, what did they expect? That’s just what happens when you let fetus fetishists run the show: Two top executives at Susan G. Komen for the Cure have announced their resignation, amid reports that the breast cancer charity is struggling
Continue readingMeanwhile, in Post-Racial America…
Bumper sticker caught earlier this week that’s been making the rounds on Twitter and Facebook: Actually, this thing’s been around for awhile: Maddowblog caught a similar thing last year. Not much to add, except #puke
Continue readingBeannachtam na Feile Padraig!
Happy St. Paddy’s! Having been attacked by savage sciatica after a couple of days of splitting and stacking firewood, for me the obligatory annual Joyous Irish Jig will have to wait til at least Ostara. But don’t let that stop you… …and when you’re done dancing here, stop in at
Continue reading“Small Government” Conservatives to blow taxpayers’ money on meaningless debate
At a time when sane people are focused on important shit like the economy and jobs, this is how HarperGovInc wants to squander the money it’s paid to conduct the peoples’ business: with a debate to ostensibly decide “when a human being is a human being” (and by proxy, wedge
Continue readingOh please
In what deranged, demented, scum-ridden universe is this the equivalent of this? I haven’t read up on this Electoral Fraud thing that has apparently been perpetrated enough to make any in-depth comments on it. However, I do know that a campaign of calls purposely directing people to the wrong polling
Continue readingRandom signs of a sleeping giant awakening
…in a bad mood. This is what bus passengers saw as they looked out the glass window of a random transit shelter in some random part of North Randomsville today: The rumbling is faint and distant and barely audible, but it’s there. (from @ryansider on Twitter)
Continue readingFocus on the 420
The notorious Pat Robertson — yep, the “700 Club” Pat Robertson — says pot should be legal “like alcohol“: Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government’s war on drugs has failed. The outspoken evangelical Christian and host of “The 700 Club”
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