Thia simple face bears repeating, especially to the religious minded among us. 🙂 Filed under: Education, Science Tagged: Limits of Science, Science
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Sammy Yatim: A Guest Commentary
I received the following as a response to one of my blog posts on Sammy Yatim, the young man gunned down a week ago by the Toronto Police. Anon’s comments and insights are more powerful than anything I could have written: Sammy…I’ve wanted die…Only I was to scared to do
Continue readingLeDaro: Kate Middleton and William hold a very difficult job. :)
Prince William finally registered his son’s birth certificate. His son’s name is His Royal Highness Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge – it will take a while to say new prince’s name. Kate and William’s job is listed as ‘Prince and Princess’. Source: NBC News. I am sure both
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: WP theme experiments ongoing
With the latest update to WordPress (3.6) comes a new theme, Twenty Thirteen. I’ve activated it with the upgrade, and I like it so far, but I’m not 100% satisfied. I preferred the dimensions of the header image on the Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve themes. Proportionately they were more
Continue readingBryan Crockett: Candidates need teams
Federal politicians must often focus their attention, energies, and expertise on matters of international significance, matters of national significance, matters of regional significance, and matters of local significance. A lot of the time, they must do all of that at the same time, managing themselves on each issue. There’s a
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
Kleenex alert!
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Road to Armageddon
Well there he was today in his crumbling bastion of Quebec City, in the province of the fiery nightmare, looking as shaken, or just plain weird, as I have ever seen him. Trying to reply to Obama's humiliating slap in the face. Prime Minister Stephen Harper responded Friday to U.S. President
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Photos of Canada
This Sikh motorcycle club is only one of Naomi Harris’ unique photos of Canada. More here: Naomi Harris: “Oh Canada” is a road trip for a Canadian photographer looking to find home.
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Ontario’s by-elections: potentially a perfectly acceptable result for Premier Kathleen Wynne
Ontario Conservative Tim Hudak’s Vandal horde sacks Rome Upon Lake Ontario, the media narrative for last Thursday’s Ontario by-elections that was sensibly ignored by the province’s voters. Below, Ontario Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne. Was she taking a page from the Book of Alison Redford, also below? One can read too
Continue readingThe Skinny: Left Lane Larry
Ontario BKLT 750 White vehicleWhite male driver Eastbound on hwy 401 between the 427 and 400Friday, August 2, 2013 at around 11:15 p.m. Speed limit: 100 km/hDriver’s average speed 99 km/h Several vehicles behind the driverNo vehicles ahead of the driver STOP HOGGING THE LEFT LANE! STOP BEING A LEFT
Continue readingThe Skinny: Left Lane Larry
Ontario BKLT 750 White vehicleWhite male driver Eastbound on hwy 401 between the 427 and 400Friday, August 2, 2013 at around 11:15 p.m. Speed limit: 100 km/hDriver’s average speed 99 km/h Several vehicles behind the driverNo vehicles ahead of the driver STOP HOGGING THE LEFT LANE! STOP BEING A LEFT
Continue readingThe Skinny: Left Lane Larry
Ontario BKLT 750White vehicleWhite male driverEastbound on hwy 401 between the 427 and 400Friday, August 2, 2013 at around 11:15 p.m.Speed limit: 100 km/hDriver’s average speed 99 km/hSeveral vehicles behind the driverNo vehicles ahead of the driverSTO…
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Wow, Walt – Generalize Much?
If the latest utterances from Walt Heyer were the first you had ever heard from him, you could easily be forgiven for believing that the man had never had anything to do with the transgender community. Women—Simply Men with no Snoopy The real war on women today is being waged on the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Four Ex-EPA Administrators, All Republican, Call for Urgent Action to Arrest Climate Change
You’ll probably recognize some of their names – Willam D. Ruckelshaus, Lee Thomas, William K. Reilly and Christine Todd Whitman. Over the past 43 years, each of them served a Republican president as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. In an op-ed to the New York Times, they say that
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6301…Dr. Cox Was Right About Porn
He was one of the doctors on NBC/ABC’s Scrubs. He said that if they took porn off the ‘net the only site left would be Bringbacktheporn.com. We are going to find out if that is true if what I saw on The National last week comes to fruition. A Manitoba
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Dirty Vegas – 7 A.M.
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night: RIP JJ Cale
According to his bio at Wikipedia, JJ Cale was considering giving up the music business when Eric Clapton recorded After Midnight in 1970. Cale spent the next forty years writing songs, recording and touring. He passed away last Friday after a heart attack. Let’s open with Mama Don’t. Here’s another
Continue readingwmtc: rtod
This Revolutionary Thought of the Day brought to you by my abiding hero, Clarence Darrow. Darrow dismissed many of the remedial bandages that he and the labor movement had battled for: eight-hour-day laws, women’s suffrage, child labor legislation. “We are busy patching and tinkering, and doing a poor job patching
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: So I’ve Been Nominated –
Samara — a non-partisan group focused on involving more people into the political process — has nominated yours truly for its Everyday Political Citizen Project. As a young man of 22 years who has been involved in all three levels of politics as a volunteer, writing this blog for the
Continue readingffibs: Harper’s Canada
Harper’s Canada
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