20 Monsters is a collection of fanciful cartoon monsters and accompanying doggerel. The free ebook 20 Monsters is available on the iTunes bookstore. You can review the Monsters as blog posts here.
Continue readingThings Are Good: Paris Marathon Runners Generated Energy to Power Event
At the recent Paris marathon the runners literally generated electricity. Pavegen put down a series of tiles that create an electric charge when compressed, so all they had to do was lay the tiles along the marathon route. The resulting energy generated by the runners was enough to power signs
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Simms and Stephen Reid note that the corporatist dogma that everything is done more efficiently in the private sector has no apparent basis in reality: The myth of private sector superiority says that the private sector is efficient and dynamic, the
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Bad planning: Edmonton Arena funding and Calgary urban sprawl.
TweetWhile too much media attention was focused this week on the fate of a statue of a hockey player who left Edmonton twenty-five years ago for sunny southern California (and piles of money), City Council desperately tried to draw up a Plan B (or Plan C) to fund the proposed downtown arena.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the one point of agreement about the environmental impact of the tar sands is that we still don’t have enough information to so much as evaluate the effects of the industry at the core of the Harper Cons’ economic strategy. For further reading…– The Canada-Alberta Oil Sands
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5910…Premier Tim Hudak
That’s what he would be called if an election were held tomorrow in Ontario.“…according to a poll by Ipsos Reid done for Newstalk 1010, Global Television and the National Post…Around 37 per cent would vote for Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak and 29 per cent would cast their ballot for
Continue readingBirth Pangs: God Doesn’t Kill Just Because He Didn’t Like How Things Turned Out…Oh wait a minute…
via Proud Atheist The post God Doesn’t Kill Just Because He Didn’t Like How Things Turned Out…Oh wait a minute… appeared first on Birth Pangs.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, April 25, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, April 25, 2013: Bill to give Ontario grandparents more rights will be subject of public hearings – Ottawa Citizen Conservative anti-terror bill and arrests match up beautifully, don’t they: Mallick Arrest of Blue Jays fan puts police
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: “I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy.”
Wonderful story, about Jerry and his friend in Toronto. Here.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: “I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy.”
Wonderful story, about Jerry and his friend in Toronto. Here.
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Government By Distraction
Bill S7 is a deeply flawed piece of legislation. Its provisions for “preventative detention” and forcing people to answer questions are unlikely to pass a Supreme Court challenge. But the bill passed yesterday amid all the yelling and screaming about political attack ads. Susan Delacourt writes in The Toronto Star:
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Bit More About Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver
Late yesterday afternoon, I wrote a post on one of our more shameful politicians, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver and the embarrassment we all should feel over his performance in Washington in a speech to a carefully-screened audience pushing the XL Keystone pipeline. In it, he rebuked and ridiculed leading
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Ipsos guru on the latest Ontario numbers
Quote unquote, with some minor edits for space. John Wright, in the comments last night on wk.com: Hubris will make the Liberals lose…if you read the actual full poll release, it is a very diagnostic sounding…it doesn’t just have the vote number, but a lot more. I’ve said this publicly:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Your Experience is not my Experience – Helpful Primer for Liberal Dudes who Don’t Get Patriarchy.
Today let us look at Science Fiction and examine the experiences of two individuals. Then think about your ‘objective truths’ and notions that ‘good arguments are judged on their merit alone’ and other liberal white dude fappery, and then try and tell me I’m wrong. It’s like this… You’re fourteen
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Trudeau Leads for Best PM Now, but A Storm is Coming…
I am starting to understand the Conservative’s current fixation on Justin Trudeau, as Harris-Decima’s new poll on the federal leaders is showing the young Trudeau not only competing well with Harper (if not outright beating him in several key aspects), but completely trashing Thomas Mulcair like some sort of wonderful
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ian Tootill And Libertarianism: A Final Note
The problem with being a Libertarian is that you live your life according a set of simple principles, and the logical implications of these principles. Logic and principles can lead you to some pretty strange places in our moral universe. And Libertarians never seem to understand how strange these places
Continue readingknitnut.net: Seamy Underbelly, Part II
Visiting the Downtown Eastside (DTES) has churned up some contradictions for me, and resolving those contradictions requires re-thinking some questions I thought I already knew the answers to: 1) To what extent do people choose to live in the DTES, and to what extent are they stuck there? 2) Does
Continue readingPolitics Canada: Justin Trudeau — Channel Change
Best ad Liberals have produced in a VERY long time.
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