Thank you for inventing an Android application that in the future will help you and other humans better understand me and other non-humans. I am thrilled that Translate for Animals (non-human ones) recognizes and transcribes words and phrases that are common to non-human species. This might just be the beginning
Continue readingA few random thoughts about whores
Before we begin, a little mood music: Ah. Thank you so much for that lovely music (and that uncharacteristic truthfulness), Mr. Limbaugh. So, Rush…how’s it feel to be at the bottom of your own shit-avalanche for a change? Fun, eh? Yeah, you really had everybody going there, with your “absurdist”
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Requiescat in pace
Today in British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly, Leonard Krog, Opposition Critic For The Attorney General, said this: “I rise today to ask the House to pay its respects to the passing of one of British Columbia’s most courageous citizen journalists, a woman who was a harsh critic of the B.C. government,
Continue readingImpolitical: Conservative MP blames Elections Canada
Today, straight out of the mouth of a Conservative MP: “Tory MP says Elections Canada to blame for robocalls.” “I suspect that at the end of the day, if Elections Canada has the resources to do a proper investigation, they’ll find they’re themselves significantly responsible,” Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott said
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: You Can Play Project for gay athletes
You Can Play is a milestone project dedicated to ensuring equality, respect, and safety for all athletes, regardless of sexual orientation. The campaign works to challenge the culture of locker rooms and spectator areas by focusing only on an athlete’s skills, work ethic, and competitive spirit. In this video are
Continue readingFar and Wide: "The military is to serve the Canadian public, not the Minister."
If there is one IMPORTANT story that is largely being ignored- as we sift through the robocall scandal and all its tentacles- it is the revelation that Peter MacKay employed the Canadian military to find DIRT on a political rival. The very idea is simply obscene, while current military officials
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: You Can Play Project for gay athletes
You Can Play is a milestone project dedicated to ensuring equality, respect, and safety for all athletes, regardless of sexual orientation. The campaign works to challenge the culture of locker rooms and spectator areas by focusing only on an athlete’s skills, work ethic, and competitive spirit.
In this video are hockey players: Patrick Burke (Philadelphia), Brian Burke (Toronto), Rick Nash (Columbus), Duncan Keith (Chicago), Brian Boyle (New York), Matt Moulson (New York Islanders), Joffrey Lupul (Toronto), Claude Giroux (Philadelphia), Daniel Alfredsson (Ottawa), Scott Hartnell (Philadelphia), Corey Perry (Anaheim), Andy Greene (New Jersey), Dion Phaneuf (Toronto), Henrik Lundqvist (New York).
If you don’t see your favorite player or team represented here, just wait. Visit youcanplayproject.org over the next few weeks as new players and teams join the You Can Play team.
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: You Can Play Project for gay athletes
You Can Play is a milestone project dedicated to ensuring equality, respect, and safety for all athletes, regardless of sexual orientation. The campaign works to challenge the culture of locker rooms and spectator areas by focusing only on an athlete’s skills, work ethic, and competitive spirit. In this video are
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Why like social media? – Lawyers Weekly
I am quoted in this article on the legal profession’s utilization of social media: Why like social media? – Lawyers Weekly – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net TORONTO EMPLOYMENT LAW • TORONTO CIVIL LITIGATION & ESTATE LITIGATION • TORONTO FAMILY LAW & DIVORCE ORIGINALLY
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Flavour of the Moment
I love this song: 32 Flavours. Filed under: Personal Tagged: Ani DiFranco
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: A small bit of advice for Stephen Harper
If you’re going to send a spokesperson out to the media and talkshows to defend/obfuscate against robocalls and whether or not your party engaged in voter suppression, I’d suggest Dean Del Maestro isn’t the guy to keep sending out there. He’s an accident that’s happening (the Liberals were calling their
Continue readingQP: Jim Flaherty: Political Superweapon
To say that today’s Question Period was anything other than bizarre would perhaps be an exercise in understatement. There were moments where it was so surreal that I felt like I was watching The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. It was also a reminder of what happens when Harper is
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Robocon: The Wisdom of the People
Harper’s new Tories are running for cover while throwing everything they can think of up as explanations for the voter suppression complaints, hoping to distract Canadians from the ever-increasing evidence that skullduggery on a large scale was afoot.Today, in the 2 pm newscast, the CBC revealed that a Forum poll
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Deep Green Resistance
I first heard about Deep Green Resistance in the middle of a grassroots fight to stop a huge vacationhome subdivision at a wilderness park on Vancouver Island. Back then, it hadn’t occurred to me that a book on environmental strategy was needed. Now I can tell you, it’s urgent. Deep
Continue readingConservatives on the defensive: squirrels and bright shiny objects
A Twitterer suggested last evening that this would be a week of Conservative diversions meant to deflect public attention from its role in the deepening Roboscam scandal: Watch for #CPC avalanche of distracting issues this week; anything at all to get #Canada’s mind off #robocalls . #pmharper and ‘The Big
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: CREA projects average house prices to dip
The Canadian Real Estate Association is predicting that the national average for house prices will drop in 2012, but not by much. I wouldn’t put too much stock in such forecasts though, before the U.S. housing market cratered so called experts were out to lunch on their predictions south of
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Ideas to Work With
David Harvey addressed a crowd in the heart of London’s financial district early in November 2011. “We need to mobilize in such a way that we can genuinely threaten major commercial and financial interests,” Harvey said in his speech at Occupy London. “You’re in the heart of the beast, the
Continue readingJohn Ibbitson shames himself in the Conservative daily Globe & Mail
Itchy and Scratchy The Globe & Mail is a terrible newspaper. It was once highly regarded but has fallen into disrepute. Only if you are a Conservative or a right-wing operative would you even consider the Globe to be the ‘newspaper of record’. In fact, the newspaper has become the
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Uneconomic Growth
The idea that economic growth can not continue indefinitely, or even for more than a few generations, is as old as economics itself. The classical economists — Smith, Ricardo and, of course, Malthus — each offered reasons for thinking that the human population would eventually outrun the capacity of nature
Continue readingTerahertz: Religions taking advantage of children
It’s an easy topic to write about and these three articles speak for themselves mostly, so I’m only going to give limited commentary on three pieces from the past couple days that definitely classify as religions taking advantage of (if not abusing) children. First, the Vancouver Sun mistakenly takes the
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