There is a reader’s comment at the bottom of yesterday’s post. It asks what we should do to stop Shale gas exploration. First – can it be stopped? Yes, it can be stopped. It has been stopped, even turned back after it began, in parts of the US and Canada
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6118…World Naked Bike Day
BBC reports that it is today. And that it started in Canada. The idea is to show how vulnerable cyclists are in city traffic. I don’t get it either but it is a freeish world. They report that the event went down in Mexico, that’s where the pic is from
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity – more then just a neat title..
It’s the name of our newest blog affiliate to Progressive Bloggers.
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6117…Nelson Mandela Un RIP
Oooooops. My bad. Mea Culpa. WFDS
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Re: 130 seats
Warren Kinsella wants people to name 130 seats where the Liberals can win, in order to get on that stepping stone towards a majority. I have decided to name them below, generally from West to East. Pay attention now. West Vancouver-Sea to Sky, Delta, North Vancouver, Surrey Centre, Surrey Newton,
Continue readingBuckdog: The New Ottawa CFL Team Maybe Should Be Named The ‘Ottawa Scandals’ Instead Of the ‘RedBlacks’ ….
Considering what’s been going on lately in the nation’s capital with the ‘Senate Scandal’ and various other Conservative Party of Canada misdeeds … perhaps there is a more fitting name for the new Ottawa CFL franchise …. “The worst-kept secret in Canadian football doesn’t need to be kept any more,
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: A Work-Out Rant
As soon as I was in my mid-30s, women everywhere started randomly looking me up and down and warning me that as soon as I hit 40, I’d have a much harder time with my weight. It didn’t happen at 40, but now, at 48, I see what they mean.
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Flaherty Needs to GTFO
The giant wagging finger of Jim Flaherty Jim Flaherty is an ass, in case you weren’t aware. The federal Conservative Minister of Finance, as well as a former Finance Minister for Ontario and runner-up choice for Premier in 2002 and 2004 among Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives, has decided that he, not
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Arturo Vega, RIP
He wasn’t perfect – he was insufficiently attuned to the fact that Nazi imagery was unwanted, even in punk – but he changed the popular culture, and not many of us can say that. Story here and his masterwork below.
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stephen Harper, stay just the way you are.
Brent Rathgeber … hero? I never thought that an MP once called a “carbon blob” by a blogger (that would be me) would ever be hailed as a hero, but there are strange times in Canadian politics. Wonderful times, too. For the first time since Canada became an autocracy under
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: An extraordinary woman
…and some extraordinary writing.
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Democracy and Efficiency
Corruption is always rooted in human character. But these days — at least in Canada — Robert Sibley suggests that it might also have something to do with the cult of efficiency: Indeed, our culture of expediency is in some ways the consequence of a technologically-minded attitude that regards efficiency
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What Troubles You Now Hooman?
Filed under: Humour
Continue readingwmtc: amnesty international calls for release of war resister kimberly rivera: please write a letter in support
Amnesty International is calling for the release of war resister Kimberly Rivera, who was forced out of Canada by the Harper Government. Will you please write a letter in support of her release? Here’s how. If you want to write to Kim, you can reach her at: Kimberly RiveraP.O. Box
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For Your Sunday Reading Pleasure …
Whether or not you live in Ontario, you may find Martin Regg Cohn’s column of some interest in illustrating the fractured and uneven relationship that Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has with the provinces. Writing in the voice of Ontario residents responding to Flaherty’s finger-wagging over the MetroLinx proposal to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Instruction Manual For Life – Theramin Soup
Two of my favourite ytubers have collaborated to make a compelling story which fits very nicely into the DWR Sunday Disservice. Enjoy. 🙂 Filed under: Religion Tagged: Instruction Manual for life, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Journalists found guilty of ethical breaches really shouldn’t lecture on journalistic ethics
People who live in glass houses next door to used car lots shouldn’t … Below: Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, the Globe’s disclaimer. S’cuse me! We ex-journalists are permitted to do whatever we like! And if Prime Minister Thomas Mulcair wants to appoint me to the Senate, I’m taking
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6116…Harper Plane Painted Tory Colours
Oy vey. I just saw in The Toronto Star that Thomas Mulcair and Pat Martin and John McCallum have their panties in a collective knot over this pic. Don’t we and the Dippers have better things to worry about? Yes the plane is in Tory colours. If you recall the
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: Creationism’s stench still lingers in American education
Creationism (and it’s dressed-up-in-drag younger brother, “intelligent” design) is the black mold of education. It’s an insidious infection of the mind, an intellectual parasite. And like real-life black mold, it creates a toxic environment – for learning and critical thinking. … Continue reading →
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