George Monbiot – Unmasking the Press: ‘via Blog this’ Too bad about Hitchens, but the best thing I’ve found about the corporate media this week comes from Monbiot. Everything you need to know, including the essential 99 percent versus 1 per cent dynamic, is in here. The class-warfare element is
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Lawrence Martin on Harper’s proto-fascism | #cdnpoli
Under this PM, the state is everywhere – The Globe and Mail: ‘via Blog this’ It doesn’t make up for the fact that it still publishes Wente, but every now and then the Globe manages to do something worthwhile. My only quibble with Martin, other than that he still hasn’t
Continue readingLt. John Pike, UC Davis Police: Little Eichmann of the Day
Time to revive a dormant feature. Here’s the tough guy, pepper-spraying unarmed students. Can’t help but notice the contrast: students sitting peacefully and silently get pepper-sprayed in the face. Students trashing their campus and destroying vehicles because a child-rapist football coach got fired get … a stern frown? Full story
Continue readingThe Sun’s effect on our national conversation is obvious, but what about the Globe?
It’s a straightforward question: what are people talking about? What’s capturing their attention and imaginations? Public conversation. Nothing gives you a better sense of a community or a society than gauging what people are talking about. (24/7 on Ki…
Continue readingDetroit hate rally, via Arizona News …
Detroit prayer rally draws protests – Arizona News from USA Today:’via Blog this’Ignorant hateful superstition? Check.Racism? Check.Religious intolerance? Check.Homophobia? Misogyny? Fundamentalist fetus fetishism? Yep. All there.Sandbags along the bor…
Continue readingThoughts for Remembrance Day, and Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) figures out the #Occupy movement
It’s a big man who can start a national column with an admission that he got it wrong.This little corner’s been relatively silent on the whole Occupy thing, but now that it’s gotten the Masters of the Universe sufficiently rattled, they’re cranking up …
Continue readingMayor Stupid makes @KeithOlbermann’s list … AGAIN (h/t @OccupyTO)
Must be Halloween or something.I have no words.
Continue reading@TOMayorFord puts Toronto on @KeithOlbermann ‘s map
Oh look. Mayor Stupid’s gotten some international recognition!Worse than Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck.When? When will this nightmare end?Related posts:So Mayor Stupid takes one in the nads on the waterfront …Oh, look: everything Team Ford touches turns to …
Continue readingThe door’s this way, Chief Blair
So it seems Bill Blair isn’t getting with Team Ford’s austerity program.Instead of being a good boy and implementing the 10-per-cent reduction the mayor’s team is demanding of city managers, he’s looking for a budgetary increase. Not a lot, mind, but t…
Continue reading@LornePW keeps the police accountability file up to date
Big tip of the porkpie to Lorne over at Politics and its Discontents.There are times when the sheer inertia and toxic, paranoid self-pity at the core of dysfunctional cop culture makes you want to just give up. Fortunately, Lorne’s got the energy and d…
Continue readingSo Mayor Stupid takes one in the nads on the waterfront …
So it appears that Mayor Stupid and Brother Dumbfuck underestimated the backlash they’d triggered by fucking around into the waterfront. A big tip of the chapeau to the folks behind CodeBlueTO, and everyone else who worked to stop them.However, as Harv…
Continue readingWhy do I do this to myself?
Just Couldn’t Leave It Alone, could you.So I followed JJ’s link to the homophobic fruit bat and found: I find myself unable to even leave the house anymore without worrying about what in tarnation we are going to encounter. Tarnation.Someone actua…
Continue readingThe Sunday Survey of Stupid
So much to choose from, and that’s without any reference to the stream of stupid coming from Michele Bachman’s piehole.We’ll start with another brief edition of What Pogge Said.From the beginning these negotiations have been kept secret. Nothing was ad…
Continue readingHow do we help poor Sarah Grunfeld?
In the spirit of charity, I was going to suggest we take up a collection to buy this poor misunderstood child a hearing aid. We’re not here to judge, after all. We’re here to help.Then this:Moron Student Who Accused Jewish Prof of Anti-Semitism: I Am T…
Continue readingOh, look: everything Team Ford touches turns to crap. Don’t look so surprised
I’m all for respectful dialogue and agreeing to disagree, but there’s a point at which you just have to admit it: we are right and they are wrong and clinging to their illusions just makes them look even dumber.For Christ’s sakes. All those disgruntled…
Continue readingThwap on "Islamicism"
thwap’s schoolyard: “Islamicism”:Every now and then I’ll make an observation about Harper and his continuing stupidification of Canada, but really, when the thwapster brings his A game, no one does this better.Heh. “Looking at them like they puked.” Pe…
Continue readingThis drama with the Catholic school system reminds me of a Mel Brooks moment
I’m sorry, I just can’t help it sometimes.It’s probably not the most famous or best-remembered scene from Blazing Saddles (and in truth, it’s got a lot of competition), but in light of the Catholic school system’s way of dealing with gay and lesbian st…
Continue readingHow’s that "building relations" thing going, @TorontoPolice Tweeter guy?
Just checking in.Any progress identifying / charging these cocksu – er, perps?No, eh? Oh, well. Pretty hard when witnesses don’t come forward, isn’t it.How about:Arresting the two assholes who kicked Adam Nobody in the face after he wa…
Continue readingWhy not just have the Americans write our legislation for us? – Peace, order and good government, eh?
Why not just have the Americans write our legislation for us? – Peace, order and good government, eh?:
What pogge said.
If I might just throw one more word into the mix: Comprador. Because “whores” and “traitors” just seems a little … vulgar.
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Continue readingCatholics and Protestants: The great schism, explained
I suppose if I’m going to go on and on about church doctrine, it’s only fair of me to put it in context.What can I do? The power of Christ compels me.Related posts:All this Catholic-school business reminds me of a Mel Brooks moment
LGBT students run in…