I’m uploading just now, an updated version of the 100 cats eBook to the iTunes book store, with over 40 new drawings, and an animation file. Keep your furry toes crossed that all goes well.
Continue readingcartoon life: Our Tuxedo Prince
Sketches app, once again, is very nice. Zoom is a bit bouncy though. Once or twice I lost my place, but scrolled around the page a bit and found it again. I don’t think it’s anymore problematic than Paper zooming into a blank place on the page and having to
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Edward Snowden says Obama administration using citizenship as a weapon
by: Edward Snowden One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never
Continue readingsamupress: Our Tuxedo Prince
Sketches app, once again, is very nice. Zoom is a bit bouncy though. Once or twice I lost my place, but scrolled around the page a bit and found it again. I don’t think it’s anymore problematic than Paper zooming into a blank place on the page and having to
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Idle No More Canada Day statement: This is stolen Native land
by: Idle No More | Press Release: Photo: Idle No More Activists with No More Silence and Idle No More unveil surprise banner at Canada Day celebration in Toronto, call attention to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women July 1, 2013 – North York—At this evening’s Canada celebration at Mel Lastman Square, a
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 7000…Sarah Palin’s Freedom Party
Y’know I had really high hopes for the former Governor of Alaska from the first time I saw her, which was the night she gave her speech as the Veep nominee at the ’08 Republican convention. Others may have disrespected her but not I. This has changed. Methinks she has
Continue readingBuckdog: Happy Canada Day From Saskatchewan ….
Happy Canada Day to Canadians everywhere. It’s a nice warm, sunny July day here in Regina. Enjoy!
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Elizabeth I
You lawyers are so nice and precise in shifting and scanning every word and letter that many times you stand more upon form than matter, upon syllables than the sense of the law.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Do not trust the promises of Princes: The Life and Death of Richard the Third Act 4 Scene 2
KING RICHARD III Stand all apart Cousin of Buckingham! BUCKINGHAM My gracious sovereign? KING RICHARD III Give me thy hand. Here he ascendeth his throne Thus high, by thy adviceAnd thy assistance, is King Richard seated;But shall we wear these honours for a day?Or shall they last, and we rejoice
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Obama’s Climate Pledge: The Keystone XL Fracking Double Standard
President Obama, during his climate speech last week, surprised many observers by his unexpected remarks about the Keystone XL pipeline. The President, for the first time, placed a clear condition on the pipeline’s approval – its impact on the climate. “The net effects of the pipeline’s impact on our climate
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
I was thinking of the lines from that Fairport Convention song this week as we walked through Toronto on our three-day mini-holiday. I can still hear Sandy Denny’s wonderful, haunting voice singing the chorus of that dreamy, sad song, as … Continue reading →
Continue readingMind of Dan: The right response to Obama’s climate push
The R Street Institute, which split from the Heartland Institute after the billboard fiasco, has released a response to Obama’s renewed commitment to tackle climate change. Unsurprisingly, given R Street’s desire for small government, they aren’t happy about the use of a regulatory approach to reduce GHG emissions. Instead they
Continue readingHalf an Hour: RSS Changeover Day Experiences
So today is the day Google Reader is vanishing from the web. What next? Well, I’ve done my duty and saved my Google RSS data, and now I’m looking for a new reader. Digg RSS Reader – http://www.digg.com/reader/ This is I think the one with the most promise on Day
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Integrity And Dishonour On Display
It there were two people in a room, a politician and a private citizen, and you were told that one was deeply dishonourable and one very principled, you would naturally assume that the mantle of dishonour would be worn by the politician. In the following case, you would be completely
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: HAPPY CANADA DAY!
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Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: B.C. residents off to Fort McMurray to witness impact of the tar sands
by: Council of Canadians | Press Release: Photo Credit: www.healingwalk.org VANCOUVER, June 28, 2013 – On July 4th, dozens of residents from Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley will be driving to Fort McMurray, Alberta to take part in the 4th Annual Healing walk, and responding to northern Albertan communities’ call
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My sons are away for the next two weeks
…And my daughter is at camp for the entire summer. When I told my youngest boy how sad that made me, this was his visual response.
Continue readingwmtc: everything else is either public relations or a misattributed quote
I saw this: and thought: that doesn’t sound like Orwell. I have read almost everything Orwell ever published, and will eventually read everything, including all the published letters. While no one could remember every line from every essay, this just doesn’t sound like our man Eric Blair to me. Orwell
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Heatland Institute Vs. Chinese Academy Of Science, Round II
Last week the Heartland got into it with Chinese Academy of Science. The academy had seen fit to translate HI’s Climate Change Reconsidered reports, and PR guy Jim Lakely from the institute suggested that this counted as an endorsement of the think-tank’s position re global warming. But no; CAS begged
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