Author: kirbycairo

In there States many Walmart stores tutor their employees on how to apply for various kinds of government  assistance because they don’t make enough money at Walmart to get above the poverty line. Meanwhile Walmart’s corporate profits are soaring….

Today felt like the end of summer in more ways than one. The profound sadness that I feel at the passing of Jack Layton are only rivalled by the disgust I feel at the fawning, hypocritical posthumous praise that right-wingers have been heaping on his m…

“DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE!!!!!”                                -Joe Hill.

Just one more interesting note of the British insurrection – yesterday Prime Minister Cameron told us that they were going to investigate and reflect on the recent events. But before any reflection or investigation he told us that we have to understand…

I find the recent discourse on the riots in England sad and tragic but I guess it is typical of any state apparatus from Syria to the UK to marginalize insurrectionists, calling them common criminals or terrorists.What really aggravates me is that if o…

Ok, I have to say it. It must be said and no one else seems ready to say it so the responsibility falls upon me.I have an important message to all those stuffy, self-righteous, hypocritical English MPs and commentators concerning their continual condem…

“We’re just showing the rich people that we can do what we want. . .”                      -Rioter in Croydon

I think anyone who is even vaguely aware of the real history of Western democracy is fairly hesitant to legitimize modern conservatism by actually debating with its adherents  in a serious way. People like Robert Ford or the so-called “tea-partier…

Frankly it is nice that the Right-wing is slowly being exposed for what they really are, mean-spirited and incompetent. The events in Norway are unspeakable and tragic beyond imagination, but they are a very direct result of the rightwing ide…

It seems that nowadays Political Parties stand for as little as possible, at least at the public level. Just look at the recent victory of the Harper Conservatives, they have consistently attempted to run on nothing, as though they are the Seinfeld of …

I don’t think one has to be profoundly knowledgable about history and political theory to be a political representative. I think, as a general rule, the more you know the better, but a compassionate instinct and an empathetic spirit can go a long way. …

Let’s put it as simply and straightforwardly as possible Mrs. Raitt – I hope you die slowly of a terrible and painful disease, suffering for ages as you gradually wither away.

Is it just me or is all this talk of Senate reform so much fart-gas? As far as I my understanding goes you cannot do anything to or with the Senate without agreement at three levels, to wit: the House of Commons, the Senate itself, and the agreement of…

I have to say that I truly don’t understand why it is that modern conservatives are so willing, even eager, to see corporations have so much power. For a long time it has supposedly been a central tenet of conservatism to oppose big government because …

I must admit that I am tired of the feigned nobility and ridiculous superiority voiced by many Canadians, particularly men like John Baird, concerning the various protests in countries like Libya and Syria. People are so quick to condemn the …

One of my readers was kind enough to leave me a comment that he has missed reading my posts. Thank you for that, because the internet is quite abstract and one sometimes forgets that there are real people out there with which one is interacting.

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I find it fairly interesting the way Liberals and Conservatives in this country are desperately trying to portray the NDP as a wacky socialist throw-back to the 1960s. Acceptance of this characterization is based itself on an old idea – the idea that t…

Anyone who doubts the right-wing bias of the media (and is actually intellectually honest) surely must have had a wake-up call when every newspaper in the country but one endorsed a Harper Majority.

More evidence is found here. The media is making mor…

“All things move, not in progress, but in a ceaseless round; our strength lies in our weakness; our virtues are built on our vices; our faculties are as limited as our being; nor can we lift man above his nature more than above the earth he tends. But …