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…
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The Catholic school system needs to get its hands out of our pockets
And that’s just for starters.The travesty that took place this week is common knowledge by now. Activist Leanne Iskander, who’s got more courage in her little finger than most people have in their whole bodies, has been threatened with disciplinar…
Continue readingA monorail for Toronto? I’m late for this party, aren’t I
Sometimes the posts practically write themselves.I’m sure all the obvious Simpsons references have already been made, although the giant Ferris wheel thing does put me in mind of that scene from The Third Man with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles.Either …
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain: "National Necrophilia Week": Ezra Levant wears orange wig, drinks Orange Crush. Mocks Layton’s passing.
Let Freedom Rain: “National Necrophilia Week”: Ezra Levant wears orange wig, drinks Orange Crush. Mocks Layton’s passing.:
What Jymn said.
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Continue readingThe Real Johnson: An Open Letter to Christie Blatchford
The Real Johnson: An Open Letter to Christie Blatchford: ‘via Blog this’
Continue readingJack’s passing seems to have sparked a new competition
I’m reminded at times of that aphorism (can’t remember whether it was Mark Twain or Winston Churchill) about a lie getting halfway around the world while the truth is still getting its pants on.It seems you could make a similar observation when you’re …
Continue readingPutting the Blatchfords of the world in the proper context
Activist Communique: An open letter to Christie Blatchford by Alice Moran | rabble.caNOW Magazine // Daily // News // A vainglorious, partisan spectacleSad part is, Blatchford and her enablers probably get off on this sort of thing and see it as valida…
Continue readingBlatchford accomplishes the impossible
She’s found a way to make @SueAnnLevy look classy.(Honorable mention to David Naylor. Well done, all.)
Continue reading@cityslikr lights @SueAnnLevy up like a pinball machine
(With an apology to pinball machines everywhere.)That @cityslikr fella can be wonderfully succinct sometimes. I retweeted this earlier, but it deserves a whole blog post.Word. If you’re ever curious about why so many of our fellow citizens seem ruled b…
Continue readingBCL catches @SueAnnLevy rewriting history, smearing brave firefighters
BigCityLib Strikes Back: In Case You ARE WonderingDon’t know why BCL isn’t on the Tweeter, but that’s up to him. In the meantime, seems the Venomous LoserTM is perfectly happy to use Toronto’s firefighters and their taxpayer-funded equipment as a …
Continue reading@AntoniaZ, @SusannaKelley, @marcusbgee, and the Rob Ford ascendancy | #TOpoli
Wonderful thing, the Tweeter. Keeps things lively, and keeps you on your toes.So apparently there’s some question over what I wrote about the Globe’s ideologically reliable urban affairs curmudgeon and his role in helping propel Mayor Stupid into the C…
Continue readingAmerica overheats: The Sewer of Stupid is about to overflow | #USpoli
Our Climate Of Extremes | ThinkProgressYep. They’re in the middle of their worst drought ever, heat records are being broken every day, but they’re going to deny the scientific evidence of climate change and schedule days of prayer for rain.Seriously. …
Continue readingRetiring senior Toronto cop calls #G20 reaction overblown
Toronto News: Retiring deputy chief calls G20 reaction overblown – thestar.comYou know where I’m going with this, so I’ll just let thwap and Lorne carry the ball on this one. They say it better than I can anyway.Hey, Tony? Don’t go away mad. Just go aw…
Continue reading@marcusbgee calls Ford on his bullshit, but who helped put him there? | #TOpoli
So a few people – Thor and Nancy for starters – are linking to this piece from the Globe’s ideologically reliable urban affairs curmudgeon, who’s arguing, not without reason, that Mayor Stupid should have known all along that he couldn’t guara…
Continue readingAnother day, another embarrassing eruption from Mt. Ford | #TOpoli
Honestly, where do you begin?First, Mayor Stupid’s dismissing all the folks who spoke at last month’s city hall all-nighter as left-wing, NDP, special-interest types trying to protect their free money. No surprise there, really. It’s not as if the guy’…
Continue readingOn that whole Nycole Turmel thing …
While we’re on the subject of journalistic ethics, let me just cite pogge and thwap. They’ve already said it better than I can.From pogge:Every year or two I find a reason to point to Declan’s post on the Media Failure Two-Step. (And actually I co…
Continue reading#SunMedia and journalistic ethics: another juxtaposition
<a href=”http://storify.com/orwellsbastard/this-is-where-we-juxtapose-part-godknowswhat-jerna” target=”_blank”>View “This is where we juxtapos…
Continue readingAs far as @pogge411 is concerned, caribou are more important than people
Typical bleeding-heart tree-hugger, getting all squishy about caribou and weeping into his tofu. Never mind the jobs involved in forestry and the Ethical OilTM Sands. And where’s he getting his information? From the socialists at the CBC, of cours…
Continue readingThe ‘debt crisis’ and the undermining of democracy in Europe
While CK’s on the road, she’s invited me to blog and cross-post here. So I’m recycling this tasty little item, which I found via @NaomiAKlein. (They say she’s polarizing … )
A sample:
Vast swathes of public policy have already been closed off and rendered inaccessible to conventional democratic processes. Anyone who’s seen . . . → Read More: The ‘debt crisis’ and the undermining of democracy in Europe
Continue reading8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance | AlterNet #uspoli
8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance | | AlterNet#facepalm just isn’t strong enough for this.
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