Author: The Mound of Sound

It’s creepy how America’s radical right New Think breezes straight past history to mislead the public. Case in point.  The man who struggled against the Japanese, the French and ultimately the Americans to unify Viet Nam was inspired by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.  Ho

More Tweets of God: I get too much credit for Friday and not enough for Saturday. If women didn’t want to be sexually harassed they shouldn’t have been born with intelligence, self-respect and dignity. My philosophy is always leave ’em wanting more.  Money, food, time on earth, whatever. If you

There really is nothing to add to this wonderful statement by English actor Stephen Fry on being proud to be gay. How can anyone listen to this and not be nauseated by the homophobes in our world?

Face it, nobody wants a mayor they know won’t be able to keep it in his pants.   Anthony Weiner, your weiner has had its last hurrah.  It’s time for you and your namesake to simply go away. The New York mayoralty candidate, once the frontrunner and apparent sure thing, has

If you’ve seen any of the seemingly endless TV ads (paid for out of your pocket) you would assume that the Harper regime has instituted something called the Canada Job Grant programme.  We’re told it’s to fund job training for Canadians. There is no Canada Job Grant programme.   Harper dishonestly

Summer time is boating time.   This year you might want to try something a bit different.  How about a spin on Lake North Pole. Yeah, that’s right.  A lake now exists atop the North Pole.  That’s it in the picture, a photo provided by the North Pole Environmental Observatory.   The

Check out this animation.   Notice that the heating our continent will experience is by far greatest in and from the north.  (sorry for the horrible embedded ad)  Researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center teamed with scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in

Justin Trudeau has taken a policy stand, one calculated to trigger condemnation from the Harper regime.   Pushing on an open door, Trudeau has come out in favour of not just decriminalization but outright legalizing of marijuana possession and use. Even Paul Martin wanted to get marijuana possession and use out

The local waters out here teem with life.   That includes several species of whales, including newly returned populations of humpback; dolphins and porpoise; seals and sea lions; sharks and rays; all manner of fish and shelfish; and mammals such as deer, bears and wolves migrating from island to island. But

Chris Hayes makes the point that FOX is crack for fearful old white Republicans and O’Reilly is their dealer:

There’s a stretch of territory straddling the Alberta-Saskatchewan border where Canadian and allied fighter jocks go to play.  The strafe the place and they bomb it and even fire rockets into it.  It’s called the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range. Guess what else they do at CLAWR?   When the air

It began in Stephen Harper’s boy band PMO.  The call went out for Tory nobs to compile enemies lists to help ministerial newbies distinguish between their real enemies from all their other enemies – the majority of Canadians. They’ve even come up with a way to force organizations critical of

Stephen Harper’s faith-based crime wave took another hammering from the latest report showing that crime rates in Canada continue on their steady decline, reaching the lowest levels since the early 70s.  That’s “faith based” in that he chooses to follow his beliefs even while flatly ignoring four decades of statistical

One of the first thing Sideshow Steve Harper did upon seizing the reins of power was to powerfully defund the federal government.  Clinging to the neo-con ideology that taxation is theft and that government surpluses are the fruits of that crime, Harper slashed the GST by two points… and a

 “We don’t speak of these things, not in front of the children.” That, according to Gwynne Dyer, is the approach being taken by our political and military leadership when it comes to the geopolitical aspects of climate change.   They don’t talk about it in front of the children – that’s

It’s sort of like walking along a cliff edge blindfolded.   Most of us, given the choice, would say no. There’s a worst case scenario and a best case scenario and not much in between.  That’s the situation that confronts us with new warnings that we could be taken by surprise

Sixty trillion dollars, how’s that Steve? That’s an estimate of the costs of Arctic thawing from climate change.   That’s 60,000,000,000,000.00 and that’s a lotta zeroes. Rapid thawing of the Arctic could trigger a catastrophic “economic timebomb” which would cost trillions of dollars and undermine the global financial system, say a

You guessed it, we’re talking Montreal, Maine & Atlantic, the railroad company that incinerated the luckless villagers of Lac Megantic, Quebec. MM&A has stopped paying contractors working on the clean-up of the disaster causing the town to demand $4-million within 48-hours to pay the contractors MM&A itself hired. MM&A chairman