Maybe he smoked too much Marijuana. 🙂
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The summer skater surfaces.
Babel heard from its boy MP the other day. Hockey Night is coming up. This is when the Member of Parliament’s staff and friends throw a fund-raiser for the local hospital and we all pay for it. We probably pay far more than is raised for the hospital but we
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Bill Gardner discusses the effect of inequality and poverty starting at birth: There are three important facts packed into this slide. First, the lines stack up in order of increasing age, meaning that older people reported worse health than younger people. Second, all the lines
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Tim Hudak abortion refresher
PC leader Tim Hudak is believes that “it is the government’s role to promote the choice of life and his London West candidate Ali Chahbar is “pro-life and pro-family (whatever ‘pro-family’ is a euphemism for…).” Â Hudak and Chahbar are out of touch and can’t be trusted to defend and protect
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Obama scoffs at claims Keystone XL will create jobs and decrease oil prices
I love how Obama does not buy Harper’s bullshit.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Sprawl As the Motor of Inequality, Or Did You Ever Try to Get There from Here?
Paul Krugman talks about commuting, public transportation, sprawl and equality today in Stranded by Sprawl. It reminded me of the time many, many years ago when I was a reporter on a suburban daily newspaper in the East Bay of San Francisco. We had a car–a Volkswagen bug that Lee
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Yakabuski nails it… again. #nlpoli
Konrad Yakabuski warned in 2006 that Newfoundland and Labrador would probably get a huge financial shock trying to develop the Lower Churchill on its own. Now, the knowledgeable Globe and Mail correspondent is back again with the observation that revenge motive behind Muskrat Falls is not a very successful business
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, July 29, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, July 29, 2013: Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance Ontario Human Rights Tribunal fines farm $23,500 for calling migrant workers ‘monkeys’ American lawyer attacked by polar bear while camping in Labrador Fired Florida court worker says she saw
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Murder By Police?
Rarely at a loss for words, I find myself in that state as I think about Sammy Yatim, the 18-year-old killed just after midnight Saturday night aboard a TTC streetccar. As the video posted last evening shows, police, under no apparent threat, opened fire on the teen a few seconds
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: It’s In The Hands Of The Young
Frank Graves has been tracking public opinion for a long time. In his most recent survey, he asked Canadians four broad questions: 1) Do you favour more or less immigration? 2) Should Canada focus on domestic production or international trade? 3) Should we build our economy on carbon based energy
Continue readingThings Are Good: Sweden Ran Out of Garbage
Late last year Sweden ran out of garbage which caused problems in their energy network. In an ironic step, Sweden’s efficient waste diversion programs are so good that their trash-burning power plants couldn’t find anything to burn. To keep electricity flowing they turned to neighbour Norway for their trash. Let’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quote of Day: On Edmonton Rape Apologists…Err…MRA’s
I love that this Anti-Feminist poster in Canada angers so many Feminists. I’m also happy that attention is being called to the increase of false rape allegations. Feminists want “equality”, but when a man is falsely accused of rape…they don’t care, and don’t do anything to help that man. They
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: LA Times: EPA Censored Key Pennsylvania Fracking Water Contamination Study
A must-read Los Angeles Times story by Neela Banerjee demonstrates that – once again – the Obama administration put the kibosh on a key Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) groundwater contamination, this time in Dimock, Pennsylvania. Though EPA said Dimock’s water wasn’t contaminated by fracking in a 2012 election
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Eventually, you’re going to need a robo-nun
Eucrecia was pretty exciting about her transformation into a Happy Ending Pleasure Bot, but the nice men at Zina-Works 3000 were having problems with the fittings. It was delicate work. The cavity extruder was just barely powerful enough to fit … Continue reading →
Continue readingwmtc: healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week: help me make delicious lentil soup
The healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week – now running about every-other week – has hit a snag: lentil soup. I love lentil soup, but my own is turning out just OK, not really delicious. After the first try was too bland, Stephanie suggested using allspice and more bay leaves.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Halifax-bound: a request
If I perish in a fiery crash, bury me in my biker’s jacket, the one I bought in high school. Still fits, and it’d render me a fine-looking corpse.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: More Gil Bennett nuttiness #nlpoli
Gill Bennett is a smart guy. That’s why he is in charge of a project as large as Muskrat Falls. So when Gil Bennett says something that obviously is not true, it looks a lot more suspicious than when he dodges the important question and answers the question no one
Continue readingNorthern Insight: We’re "fed a constant stream of journalistic pap"
One of the most significant articles you’ll read anytime is by John Naughton, professor of the public understanding of technology at the Open University, published in The Observer, July 28, 2013: “Without [Edward Snowden], we would not know how the National Security Agency (NSA) had been able to access the
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Severe Autism: Autism in the Shadows – Thank You Amy Mackin
“My son’s story is one of hope, not unlike the stories regularly broadcast on television, printed in magazines or making the rounds on YouTube. Yet the autism spectrum is wide and diverse, and many who suffer from severe autism will never reach the level of functioning that my child has
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