The 1700 year old part. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Rome
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Raphael sleeps here. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Rome
Continue readingcartoon life: The wall outside Vatican City
All the secrets are inside. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Rome, Vatican, wall
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Just about the only reason, really, to see the Vatican. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Vatican
Continue readingcartoon life: Rome Vespa girl
Filed under: art Tagged: girl, Rome, scooter, Vespa
Continue readingDemocratic Voting Canada: Why our voting system is broken and how to fix it
Unlike most developed countries, Canada uses a primitive method of voting called First-Past-the-Post. This simple system awards a seat (in Parliament) to the candidate with the most votes. This sounds like a fair process until you realize that a minority candidate can win on a fraction of the vote when
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Union concerned about Verizon spying on Canadians
If New York-based Verizon Communications takes over Canada’s telecommunications, it will pass Canadians’ personal data to US intelligence agencies, says Canadian union. The post Union concerned about Verizon spying on Canadians appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Saturday Evening Thought
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Continue readingWarren Kinsella: I grow old
Tomorrow, I get even older. So, I sit on the dock – and the cursing we’d been hearing has stopped, for now, thank God – and I’m here with new GBV (Tobin Sprout is back!) and a quart of Beau’s Lug Tread, and the sun is heading West, and everything
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne comments on the biggest of the Cons’ many lies about the role and capacity of the federal government: Canada’s $18.7-billion deficit has (its) roots in failed economic policies, decisions made before the world financial crisis, including reckless corporate tax cuts. Remember,
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6317…Best Comment On Hudak’s Problems
You are aware of course that Buffalo Tim Hudak is on the ropes with the party he leads, Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives. Something bothers his followers. That something is the fact that he is a choke artist. Best line comes from something I saw on Facebook. Lawrence Dawkins Hey Dean I kinda
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Maybe What Vancouver Island Needs Isn’t Provincehood but Sovereignty Association
There’s been some talk lately about why Vancouver Island isn’t a Canadian province in its own right. The argument is that, if you look at the maritime provinces, we’re bigger, more populous, even more affluent so why not? It’s the sort of discussion that flares up and then simmers along
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It’s First Nations, Surfers & Loggers Versus Those Damned Dirty Hippies
A confrontation is brewing on the north island where remote Raft Cove Provincial Park is bracing for a flash mob of 2,000 hippies planning to stay there for up to a month. It’s called the “World Rainbow Gathering”, an annual event that’s been going on since 1972 at different spots
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: BC closes Vancouver Island park due to influx of ‘hippies’ and their ‘values’
Thousands were set to gather at Raft Cove Provincial Park due to thousands of dirty fucking hippies expected to visit. Only about 70 people have shown up and already the predictions of disaster from the authorities has closed the park. (Emphasis mine.) VICTORIA – BC Parks is closing Raft Cove Provincial
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Elegant Solution
Earlier this month I posted an interview with Neil Turok, head of The Perimeter Institute and the deliverer of this year’s Massey Lectures. As I indicated in my original post, I was struck both by Turok’s humanity and his optimism, perhaps best exemplified when he said that almost all the
Continue readingLeDaro: Human Intelligence and its Weaknesses
According to Steve Pavlina there are 10 major weaknesses. All of them are interesting. I especially liked #4: “4. Infinite loops: Once a pattern of thought and behavior has become conditioned, it can be very difficult to reprogram. This causes bad habits, addictions, and Republicans.”
Continue readingwmtc: a kiss on the wrist: the absence of same-sex love on star trek as a measure of how far we’ve come
Earlier this year, I re-watched the original “Star Trek” series end-to-end on Netflix – a thoroughly entertaining experience – then decided to watch “Star Trek: The Next Generation” for the first time. It wasn’t long before I was completely hooked. The show has a lot to recommend it: compelling story lines,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On efficiencies
Nick Falvo offers one response to Tom Mulcair’s latest comments on taxes. And I certainly won’t argue with the position that it’s utterly bizarre to see the leader of a progressive party declare that he’s perfectly happy with the restrictive revenue streams (and associated lack of social programs) set up
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: August 10: Letters….
I won’t spend much time on the TandT news today because most of it reads like a tabloid, a really, really boring and trivial tabloid. It doesn’t even have the story about how Camilla killed Prince Charles a year ago, and sold him for snacks at a church tea. Section
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