Closing Time

You knew it was coming. Thanks to everyone who read and commented, agreed and disagreed, linked and un-linked, and especially those who’ve hung in here over these past few erratic and troublesome months.  I’m humbled.  But I’ve become discouraged with the blogosphere in general and my own recent feeble offerings in particular — the bell […]

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Charles McVety, champion of censorship, free speech martyr (huh?)

Shorter Charles McVety:  “WAAAHHHHHHH!”: An evangelical minister says his television show’s content will now be “pre-screened and censored” after his remarks about homosexuals drew complaints that were investigated by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.  […] The Word TV statement released Wednesday also criticized the CBSC’s “heavy hand of censorship” and the way it investigates complaints […]

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Another bill bites the dust

Steve walks warily in to vote on the latest anti-choice bill Ain’t no sound but the sound of him telling his flunkies to vote to kill The foetishists are ready, they’re ready for this, they’re hangin’ on the edge of their seats Out of Lifesite the shrieking rips, to the sound of the tweets Another […]

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For Whom the Poll Tells

Today’s Big Number is Thirty-Eight(38). With the comfortable space of 2 years between them and the last election, and with the next one hovering tantalizingly on the horizon, the latest Angus Reid poll shows the CPC well ahead at 38%.  38%… I can almost hear the saliva dripping from conservative fangs across the nation… 38%… […]

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