Hey you gotta admit he looks like he is having a time. The mayor likes to party all the time, party all the time, party all the time.WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6321…Coming To A Stephen Harper Near You
Voter suppression. The home of Andy Griffith, North Carolina, is leading the way. Check this out from ThinkProgress.org: On Monday, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed into law a massive voter suppression bill compiling numerous different provisions used to restrict voting in other states. Among other things, the bill includes a strict
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The Reaction to Edward Snowden Parallels that of Julian Assange
Whenever we learn something new and impactful about what our governments or other institutions of power are doing, we owe ourselves a public discussion of these new revelations. Perhaps we accept the revelations as acceptable or desirable, or perhaps we find them unacceptable and harmful in which case the public discourse can
Continue readingcartoon life: Police station, Venice, at Rialto
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Continue readingLeDaro: Politician: A politician is a politician and often cannot be trusted
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy In this case is the Norwegian Prime Minister driving around in a taxicab supposedly picking up unsuspecting passengers and chatting about his policies. Now it turns out those passengers were not so unsuspecting. In fact, they were downright
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: To and about Glen McGregor
The Sun is doing a clarification, but I wanted to do more than that. Here it is: I owe Glen McGregor a clarification, and perhaps even a correction. But I owe readers some context. First, the clarification/correction. Back in June, McGregor – formerly of Frank Magazine, presently of the Ottawa
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: August 14: Yesterday, two pigeons sat on my windowsill…
They sat there, unmoving, for five or six hours, eyes open, unblinking. They were more interesting than the Moncton TandT. They certainly beat the big, front page, read-it-now story about a leaky toilet. And for those who haven’t noticed, the big, front picture and a big story are all about
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Pondering Pam Et Al.
It was a comment yesterday that The Mound of Sound (a.k.a. The Disaffected Lib) made in response to a cartoon I posted depicting the much beleaguered Senator Wallin that made me think. He reminded me of an earlier time when there was honour associated with public service, and expressed the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joseph Stiglitz comments on the wider lessons we should take from Detroit’s bankruptcy: Detroit’s travails arise in part from a distinctive aspect of America’s divided economy and society. As the sociologists Sean F. Reardon and Kendra Bischoff have pointed out, our country is
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Helping health units that hate gambling.
“For some individuals, gambling is a devastating problem,” says the Ottawa health unit. From this you can deduce that the unit is somewhat negative about the siren lure of casinos. This is in response to a recent question about casinos from the city council. With this level of response to
Continue readingThings Are Good: The B Team – A Plan B for the Economy
The economic stupidity of a few years back is still causing problems and the fact that the wrongdoers got bailouts for their transgressions hasn’t helped. Even years later economies haven’t recovered and the class divisions within multiple societies have widened. It’s time for an alternative to this current form of
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Who’s the shill here? 14-year-old girl destroys Kevin O’Leary on Monsanto, GMO labeling.
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Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Thag want be millionaire!
It had been an unlucky hunting season. First of all, their big man, Grunk, got himself gored by a woolly rhinoceros in the first week of the expedition. Grunk — always the big swinging dick that Grunk — had tried … Continue reading →
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: From Dream To Obsession To Delusion
Having nixed the Northern Gateway Pipeline with their over the top rhetoric — and with the future of the Keystone Pipeline in doubt — you would think that the Harper Conservatives would re-examine their sales pitch. Instead, Tim Harper writes in today’s Toronto Star, they are using the same strategy
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, August 14, 2013: When the next Ernest Hemingway dies, who will own his Facebook account? – Quartz Number of ‘Virtual’ Law Practices Shows Decline in 2013 ABA Technology Survey Lac-Mégantic disaster railway can no longer operate in Canada The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Being an MRA – Feminists Stole my Ice Cream!!
Pretty much all you need to know about the motivations of your average MRA dude. 🙂 Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Feminists Stole My Ice Cream, MRA, Red Pill
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Paywalls will not be the print media’s Holy Grail
You may have noticed yesterday if you visited the Toronto Star that they have implemented their new paywall system. As with the Globe and Mail and others, you’re allowed a certain amount of free specific articles to view (with the Star I believe it is 10) before you’re then required
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Five Myths of Terrorism
From Michael Shermer, monthly columnist for Scientific American, a respected science magazine founded in 1845. Link to Dr. Shermer’s complete article, Five Myths of Terrorism. It is worth reading, particularly if you wonder if actual risks justify wholesale trampling of human rights and freedoms. The myth of pure evil, which holds
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Summer Reading List
A compendium of 100 biases in the way we all think, described in easy-to-understand language, The Art of Thinking Clearly should be required reading in the provincial government these days. Keep a pad of paper and a pencil beside you as you read this book. Jot down the biases you
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