So you want to be a writer or an actor or a musician? Go read THIS. Twice. Commit it to memory. Have it tatooed on your chest if necessary. It is excellent advice. No, stop reading right now and go back, click the link and read the post. Do the
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the woodshed: from your children’s cold dead hands, America
From the “You’ve got to be fucking kidding me, America” department: Why try to control the spread of push-button death machines when you can dress you kid kevlar? From the Guardian: US schools weigh bulletproof uniforms: ‘It’s no different than a seatbelt in a car’ Except we require people to
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Continue readingthe woodshed: Not wishing to speak of ill of the dead is a fine sentiment, unless the dead are horrible villains
“No man is an island. Every man’s death diminishes me, for I am a part of mankind. “–John Donne “There is no such thing as society” — Maggie Thatcher. “She created today’s housing crisis, she produced the banking crisis…In actual fact, every real problem we face today is the legacy of
Continue readingthe woodshed: A manifesto for the internet age
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Continue readingthe woodshed: What could possibly go wrong?
Arizona gun proponents launch free gun program By CRISTINA SILVA, Associated Press – 6 hours ago TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A campaign promising free shotguns for people in Tucson’s most troubled neighborhoods has divided some residents in a community still reeling from a shooting rampage in 2011 that killed six
Continue readingthe woodshed: An early April Fool’s Day prank?
Has up been declared down and black become white? How did this Toronto Star editorial end up in the Toronto Sun? But it would be foolish to pretend the credibility of our police force has not taken a serious hit in recent years, due to repeated examples of wrong-doing by
Continue readingthe woodshed: What to watch when you’re not watching TV
What if John Hughes directed Game of Thrones? And speaking of Game of Thrones…. What if geek troubadours Paul and Storm took over a kids’ show? And speaking of naughty puppets… and speaking of Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris and musicals about supervillians… Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
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Admit it, when you saw this picture on the front of the Globe and Mail yesterday, you too were thinking the caption should have been “Despite her busy schedule, Laureen Harper still cooks her husband’s favorite for breakfast every morning. “ Especially when I got to this part of the
Continue readingthe woodshed: jack would be proud
Another good reason to vote NDP — can you picture Stephen Harper leading the Tory caucus in song? I mean something other than “Deutchland, Deutchland, Uber Alles”? Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingthe woodshed: Dignity, always dignity
Take a good look at this photo of the soon-to-be-former mayor of Toronto. I don’t think the Rob Ford bluster is going to be sufficient teflon this time. It isn’t every day that the chief executive of the Canada’s largest city gets hammered and starts grabbing ladies asses. I suspect
Continue readingthe woodshed: A proud Canadian
RIP Stompin’ Tom Connors This commercial was filmed entirely in Port Dover, Ontario in 1989 or 1990. I happened to be a young reporter at the Port Dover Maple Leaf at the time and was lucky enough to be informed of the filming in the Norfolk Tavern one night. (I’m
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Harper government touts record on openess By Dean Beeby, The Canadian Press The Harper government is dismissing a report that ranks it 55th in the world for upholding freedom of information, saying it has a sterling record for openness. But a four-page document outlining the federal rebuttal took five months
Continue readingthe woodshed: An old favourite
Some things just never get old. I first posted links to this little video back in 2005 (yes, I have been blogging since the internet was a series of strings and tin cans). But this CBC story and a subsequent twitter conversation about CSIS agents and the Jehovah’s Witnesses brought
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Continue readingthe woodshed: "This self-delusion is more than ideology"
Not much of a surprise that University of Calgary political scientist and nut bar Barry Cooper brags about his friendship with Tom Flannagan, Why do I call him a nut bar? Well, this is Professor Coopers take on the First Nations in Canada and presumably aboriginal people anywhere else that
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One assumes that Stephen Maher is out shopping for a frame for this press release from the PMO. I’m sure, in time, it will look lovely hanging on the wall next to Dean Del Mastro’s scalp. Glen McGregor must be so jealous.Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
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So let me get this straight: Unless the government steps in and order private companies to pay money a service that no one wants, SUN-TV will be unable to keep up its brave, principled fight against socialism, over-regulation and government interference in private enterprise. Sounds like Ezra Levant’s previous adventure
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I’m shocked to learn that there is payola gambling going on at FOX NEWS in this establishment Your winnings Capt. Renault “The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air,” Armey, the former House majority leader, told Media Matters
Continue readingthe woodshed: here we go again
Edmond Burke’s famous maxim that “those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it”appears to be a feature not a bug for the ascendent Japanese right-wing. Shinzo Abe seems to have moved on from the LDP’s previous Fawlty Towers policy on dealing with the past, to a brave new
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