Rocky Horror Picture Show

Disclaimer: I am making commentary on the movie, as that is the most widely viewed.Young liberals embrace far too much far too easily. In the process of being “cool” and “rebellious”, sometimes, you embrace stupidity and immorality. As always, it’s muc…

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Rocky Horror Picture Show

Disclaimer: I am making commentary on the movie, as that is the most widely viewed. Young liberals embrace far too much far too easily. In the process of being “cool” and “rebellious”, sometimes, you embrace stupidity and immorality. As always, it’s much more convenient to accept what is fed to

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Quotes from E.C.Drury’s memiors.

“Political  advertising is an evil thing. It generates a good deal of heat but no light. Worse, it increases cost of elections tremendously, and hence the power of Big Money, whose design generally run contrary to the public interest, over the political parties and the press. Until elections can be

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Children, happiness and discontent.

There’s a belief out there that children ought to be happy. Such a optimistic belief in obligatory joy for children (and people) is problematic on multiple levels. Nirvana The first generally falls within the issue of happiness as a be-all and end-all to life. Many people stress that happiness is

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Jesse Brown gets it.

He’s a quote from him, on The Agenda regarding the Wentegate. “It’s not Darn Trends. It’s not Darn Internet [that caused Wente’s plagiarism]. We’re talking about a specific thing here…. It’s not so much the  [Wente] response, but is the Globe [and Mail] okay? And this brings up questions about

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Jesse Brown gets it.

He’s a quote from him, on The Agenda regarding the Wentegate.”It’s not Darn Trends. It’s not Darn Internet [that caused Wente’s plagiarism]. We’re talking about a specific thing here…. It’s not so much the  [Wente] response, but is the Globe [an…

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RESIGN.

Asking for a Minister to resign in 2012 is about as useful for asking a backbencher to resign. If a Minister had some autonomy, such a call would make sense. Don’t fool yourself, though, the Prime Minister is the puppet master – he should be the one wh…

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RESIGN.

Asking for a Minister to resign in 2012 is about as useful for asking a backbencher to resign. If a Minister had some autonomy, such a call would make sense. Don’t fool yourself, though, the Prime Minister is the puppet master – he should be the one who you direct

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Ontario Progressive Conservatives embrace contradictions.

I was browsing through the Ontario Progressive Conservative ‘Party History’ page, and I noticed the amusing contradictions. Before that, let’s start with their more recent leader/Premier, pulled directly from their Party History page, (1995-2002) Premier Michael Harris “[His] achievements included welfare reform, health care restructuring, major reductions in public spending

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The sinking ship of mainstream journalism.

The Wentegate affair and much of the traditional media’s reaction to it really tell us something about the mainstream media. Margaret Wente, who is documented to be a serial-plagiarist has already gotten defended by a few mainstream journalists (Jesse Brown with Maclean’s, Terence Corcoran and Dan Delmar of the National

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