Isn’t this amazing? Many other wild shadow creations by Tim Noble and Sue Webster can be seen on a slideshow on Environmental Graffiti and on this Daily Mail story. BuzzFeed brings us examples of shadow art by several artists. This is by Larry Kagan. Thanks to @ImpStrump.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mind you, some of the stories are a couple of days old precisely because there’s been an embarrassment of riches in the Con criticism department this week. Most of the time, stories about a government violating immigrants’ privacy for the sake of
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Surreal Morning
I hate it when the day starts off non-Euclidian, and then just gets weirder. It’s a straight line to humor at Alltop.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, 2. Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBAtf5o9er8 Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras:Ein deutsches Requiem, 2nd movementJohannes Brahms (1869) Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra, 1961
Continue readingIt Would Appear The Mdme (not)Premier’s Math Skills Are Failing….
TwoPlusTwoDoesNotEqual $125,000Ville …Us. Well, whaddy’a know. Pointless initiative #3,459,423, brought to us by the Campbell/Clark Government, has arrived. Stephen Thompson of the GStraight had the story up first yesterday: The B.C. government is launching a review as part of an effort to reform the province’s justice system, Premier Christy Clark
Continue readingImpolitical: Why Flaherty was so upset with the PBO yesterday
Well, there was the main takeaway from Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page’s report release yesterday on the fiscal sustainability of Old Age Security that Flaherty would not have been too pleased with: “OAS sustainable under current rules, says budget watchdog.” That main point runs counter to the government’s messaging. And
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: APA Ignores Concern Over DSM Autism Exclusion of Intellectually Disabled
On July 17 2011 I made a submission to the Neurodevelopmental Disorders DSM Work Group of the American Psychiatric Association. My submission dealt at length with the exclusionary language added to Mandatory Criterion A of the DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder, language which targets for exclusion from autism diagnosis of persons with intellectual
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Response and Responsibility #nlpoli #cdnpoli
“How satisfied are you with what they [DND officials] had to say?” And with those words, CBC Here and Now’s Jonathan Crowe asked the man whose officials were responsible for directing the search for a missing 14 year old boy in Makkovik last week what he thought of explanations offered
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Failing healthcare managers paid handsomely
Doctors vow to take back Royal Columbian ER, Tara Carman, Vancouver Sun, February 7, 2012 “Emergency-room doctors at Royal Columbian hospital served notice to administrators Monday they will no longer assess patients in hallways or other areas with insufficient privacy and equipment to do a thorough examination. “The doctors’ statement
Continue readingKeeping the ability to cross the floor
The NDP private member’s bill that would force a by-election after a floor crossing died after a vote in the Commons last night, as well it should. Bitter comments from NDP MPs over the Liberals voting it down because of Lise St-Denis aside, I do think that floor crossing does have a
Continue readingPipelines: Which side are you on, planet or profit?
Since the Northern Gateway pipeline hit the news, the regina mom has read more posts about science than ever before. And it’s not because science claims a place in her higher reading order. Rather, it’s because the HarperCon response to public outrage about the pipeline has forced her to know
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: BC Liberal motto: Be Prepared
A REPLAY from March 1, 2011 ER doc takes a coffee break CBC News item: Staff at Royal Columbian Hospital near Vancouver were forced to turn the facility’s Tim Hortons outlet into an emergency room on Monday night because of a shortage of beds. Deputy Premier, Minister Responsible for Small
Continue readingThe Political Road Map: A New Era in Humanity…A New Sign of Hope!
I have been unable to post a new entry over the past few days due to being ill and not having the energy to write down my thoughts. Now that I am feeling better however, I am compelled to post something and feel it necessary given my recent absence. I
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Obamacare, birth control, and religious freedoms
The Obama administration has recently adopted a very narrow definition of religious exclusions in the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. The effect of this is that ostensibly religious institutions such as Catholic hospitals and universities would be required, along with everyone else, to include coverage of birth control
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Who shot Shariff? More lessons in democracy, Alberta-style
Shiraz Shariff works the phone in his Calgary office yesterday afternoon. Below: interim PC Executive Director Kelley Charlebois; former AHS Chair Ken Hughes; outgoing Calgary-West MLA Ron Liepert. The Alberta Progressive Conservative Party has now given the bum’s rush to Shiraz Shariff, the 30-year party supporter and former MLA who
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Has Toronto’s Mayor Become Irrelevant?
Photo of Rob Ford by Tannis Toohey for The Toronto Star Yesterday, Toronto City Council took over the lead on transit planning in the city and voted to reaffirm most of the LRT lines outlined in the Transit City plan. Council voted 25-18 to reaffirm what was already a binding
Continue readingEver Wonder How Sweden and Norway Became the Comparison?
As a social advocate I’m constantly referencing how egalitarian and supportive Scandinavian governments are. Sure taxes are high, but there are high levels of unionization and the population always rates high in OECD and happiness rankings. I use them as examples but never really stopped to think just HOW these
Continue readingAll Politics Is Local: Mitt Romney’s Very Bad Day
It is no great revelation that Mitt Romney had a bad night on Tuesday. He showed poorly in Colorado and Minnesota. However, I think the results on Tuesday are more than a mere flesh wound for Romney. Let’s be clear, I still believe there’s about a 75% chance Mitt Romney
Continue readingAll Politics Is Local: Mitt Romney’s Very Bad Day
It is no great revelation that Mitt Romney had a bad night on Tuesday. He showed poorly in Colorado and Minnesota. However, I think the results on Tuesday are more than a mere flesh wound for Romney. Let’s be clear, I still believe th…
Continue readingAll Politics Is Local: Mitt Romney’s Very Bad Day
It is no great revelation that Mitt Romney had a bad night on Tuesday. He showed poorly in Colorado and Minnesota. However, I think the results on Tuesday are more than a mere flesh wound for Romney. Let’s be clear, I still believe there’s about a 75% chance Mitt Romney
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