And a bunch of other stuff I found Now that Stephen Colbert is sort of running for the Republican nomination and outpolling Jon Huntsman in South Carolina, does that mean he will be included in the Republican leadership debates? (Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease) Another reason where I live is cooler than where you
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The United States Marine Corps – America’s No. 1 fighting force (sorry, I couldn’t help it)Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingthe woodshed: The joy of books
A little something in honour of my 50 book project. (for Dan and Tammy) Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingthe woodshed: Whatcha reading?
As mentioned previously, I’ve embarked on a little project this year to read 50 books. Partly because I found I had started to cut down on my off-line reading late last year and partly just for the hell of it. As with hard-boiled eggs, I figured 50 was a good
Continue readingthe woodshed: Canada’s little ray of SUNshine
Canada’s ethical snake-oil salesman and Glenn Beck wannabe Ezra Levant continues to keep it classy. As far as I can tell, Ezra’s objection isn’t that Chiquita Banana keep paying right-wing death squads to murder labour activists in South America, but that they are denying that they are boycotting tarsand products
Continue readingthe woodshed: a project
My plan for this year is to read at least 50 books – just about one a week, which for me shouldn’t really be a stretch provided I don’t get too bogged down on something long and challenging – so naturally I hope to read lots of challenging material this
Continue readingthe woodshed: Making people stupider
(JimDandy Goodness, with his sponsored argument between atheists and agnostics, and annoyance at dimwits who discount meteorology because it isn’t 100% accurate 100% of the time got me thinking about this, so blame him.) Not to kick off the new year by sounding like the opening of a Seinfeld episode,
Continue readingthe woodshed: RIP and en garde
Swordmaster Bob Anderson has laid down his blade at last. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingthe woodshed: More stories from the War on Christmas
(graphic and entire concept shamelessly stolen from the brilliant Driftglass post that inspired this whole thing) Close up: Willard, a mall security guard sips from a large hip flask, the camera pulls back to reveal he is sitting in Santa’s chair at the Santa’s village display in the mall. It
Continue readingthe woodshed: Have a disgustingly happy Christmas
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Continue readingthe woodshed: The height of political sophistimacation
“Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.“-John Stuart Mill This epigram from Mill has been bouncing around my brain for a few days now, sparked in part by an evening of sparring on Twitter with a bunch
Continue readingthe woodshed: Just in time for the Christmas shopping season
Shopping season being upon us, we here at the Woodshed are making our list and checking it twice. Kids are often difficult to buy for, as toy trends come and go and today’s cool, must-have gadget is tomorrow’s obsolete paperweight. Bearing that in mind, we bring you this indispensible list
Continue readingthe woodshed: When $90 million isn’t really $90 million
Before you go opening your piehole about how “those Indians get a free ride” and are just “spending all our tax money on booze, big screen TVs and new snowmobiles” or some such bullshit, let me suggest you go and read the facts on Attawapiskatt. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingthe woodshed: Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward men…
…Unless they happen to be Iranian or North Korean or Syrian or Mexican or Jordanian or Nicaraguan or Cuban or Russian or French or Chinese or Australian or Kenyan or Swiss or anyone else who may not have applauded loudly enough when the United States of America raised an eyebrow.If,
Continue readingthe woodshed: Another casualty in the war on the poor
I’m sure the message many of the one percent will draw from this is that handguns are too inexpensive. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingthe woodshed: I’d like to give the whole world a big hug…
Shamelessly stolen from PZ over at Pharyngula, music by Jonathan Colton, whose work you really, really need to become more familiar with. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingthe woodshed: This looks promising
It is kind of Thunderbirds meets the Prisoner via Monty Python, the Batman TV series and a really low budget Japanese sci-fi series.This is just the trailer, the series started last week and can be found here. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingthe woodshed: the constitution doesn’t mention GPS tracking
My suggestion if you find one of these on your vehicle would be to either drive to a truckstop and stick it on a tractor-trailer with out-of-state plates, or box it up and mail it to the White House (I would suggest using the local police station or FBI office
Continue readingthe woodshed: the return of Friday music!
A couple of tunes for what appears to have become the second largest national holiday in the U.S. and rapidly in Canada, too. Why celebrate Easter, Diwali or Labour Day when you can embrace rampant consumerism and materialism, and maybe get trampled to death to save $50 on a new
Continue readingthe woodshed: Headline of the week, maybe of the year
Thank you Toronto Star , for making the headline suit the story Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
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