Last week, Conservative MP Larry Miller, compared support for the gun registry to Adolf Hitler and his apparent disarming of Germans. Most people were shocked but they shouldn’t have been. The NRA uses this argument all the time and before they pried the gun from his “cold, dead hands”, Charlton Heston
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Google Doodle’s Gay Shout-Out
Google has posted a Valentine’s Day video on their home page, and it includes an adorable gay couple near the end. Aw, how sweet! That couple, though, is displayed in a visual collage alongside other “non-traditional” pairings such as a dog and a cat, a cookie embracing some milk, and
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Do You Love All Your Parts?
It’s Valentine’s Day, the day of love–and so I have to ask: do you love your toes, your eyes, your brows, your butt, your belly, your intestines, your femors, your ribcage, your waist, your spleen, your skin (which in some kids’ lexicon refers as well to chesty bits)? What about
Continue readingThings Are Good: Life After Death for American Shopping Malls
Malls have lost a lot of their popularity in consumer culture which has caused many malls to close down. This leaves huge swathes of land unoccupied in towns and cities that can be repurposed from something destructive to the environment to something that respects it. Well, if a mall hasn’t
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4220…This Is Why I Love Air Bags
No, not those kinds. Get your mind in the gutter. Sheyla Hershey of Houston told Radar Online that she credits her 38KKK enhanced breasts for saving her life. In a New York Daily News story Nina Mandell wrote that “She was driving to pick up her husband after a Super
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a Few Random Acts of Kindness
The photo isn’t new–I used it two years ago, but I still like it a lot. As for the holiday, well, it’s problematic. Just another opportunity to sell something? For man, certainly. The Globe and Mail starts out its editorial decrying that: “What a grotesque farce is Valentine’s Day… it
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4219…But When They Are Right They Are Right
Not a big fan of the Green Party but their communications guy Kieran Green is an old friend, we played in Metallica together back in the ’90’s, and he passed along something I want to share with you. To wit: “The Harper Conservatives are making a bid to have parliamentary
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Fragile Economy: addictions management #nlpoli
The provincial government in Newfoundland and Labrador spends more per person on delivering services for most things than does any other provincial government in the country. Health care is the one the Premier highlighted a couple of weeks ago. There are others. This is not something new. Here’s a snippet
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: In the Wake of the Crisis: Bully Capitalism
A shorter version of this article appears today at Economy Lab, the Globe and Mail’s on-line business feature. Capitalism has entered an ugly new era, one that may work well for the shareholders of world, but not for the rest of us. I couldn’t help but notice that, on the
Continue readinggay persons of color: Kath & Kim’s Magda Szubanski (Sharon) comes out
British-born Australian actress Magda Szubanski, well known for her portrayal as Sharon on the international hit, Kath & Kim, on Tuesday (Valentine’s Day) came out publicly as gay on the Australian news and talk show, The Project. From the Sydney Morning Herald: The 50-year-old comic actor said her family, friends and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mike de Souza’s report on the Cons’ attempts to hide both the oil industry’s involvement and its own lack of credibility is well worth a read in full. But let’s focus on a more basic revelation: Harper has set up a publicly-funded
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, February 14, 2012: Statements from bullied child who took his own life ruled admissible in Ontario court Judge rejects cameras in court for sentencing of man in Stanley Cup riot In challenge to Ottawa, judge refuses to
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Enbridge Spotlighted at Mountain Film Fest This Wed – Damien Gillis to MC
Enrbidge Inc.’s controversial proposed Northern Gateway pipeline will be in the spotlight at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival this Wednesday evening, beginning at 7:30 pm (doors open 6:30) at North Vancouver’s Centennial Theatre (2300 Lonsdale Ave). The evening will feature four compelling documentary films from the past year –
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: National Post: Even officials from Public Safety Canada take issue with online spying
By Jesse Kline for the National Post: For years, small-c conservatives have been arguing that the gun registry is a giant waste of money — not only because it went way over budget, but due to the fact that it serves to make criminals out of law abiding firearms owners.
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Understanding Brush Fires
Chantal Hebert doubts that the NDP’s hold on Quebec is permanent. She points to dwindling support for the party: Ten months after the fact, the so-called Quebec orange wave feels more like a devastating flash flood for Quebec’s federal representation than the precursor of a lasting New Democrat tide in
Continue readingConservative sado-politics takes a hit
Just the beginning, I suspect. The torturecons will be upset. Watch them move to amend their omnibus crime law by adding a notwithstanding clause.
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Who will win the race for Stornoway?
Leadership races are tricky beasts to project, due to their insular nature. There are few meaningful polls, the media is being spun in twelve directions, and the air war rarely corresponds to the ground war. Name recognition and a spiffy social media campaign are a lot less important than having
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Best Emotional Porn – Religion
Since Sunday was Darwin’s birthday, the Sunday Disservice was more academic and celebratory fitting the occasion. Here is the video I would have posted if it was a regular Disservice. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Religion, Religious Porn, Thunderf00t, Warm Fuzzies
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: G20 Toronto Police Not Paid for Overtime?
Perhaps next time they will be more selective about the number of law-abiding citizens against whom they wield their batons and arrest. Recommend this Post
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Stop Online Spying
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