I don’t think this will cure my cold.
Yes, kiddies, your auntie Bina is still under the weather. But since laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, let’s take the Rick Mercer cure, shall we? Oof. Just made myself cough. Guess I’m not cured after all! But it does make me feel better to know that Peter
Continue readingcartoon life: If you meet the buddha on the painting, kill him.
Seeing the sequence like this, the fourth seems, oh, anchored to the first. You can see the first image in the last stage still. Seen like this it seems still connected, not an image on its own, which is what I see when standing over it, working on it. As
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HISTORY: ROSA PARKS: On this date Rosa Parks (1913-2005), the mother of the American Civil Rights Movement was born. On December 1st 1955 she refused an order from a bus driver to give up her seat for a white and “move to the back of the bus”. This led to
Continue readingRusty Idols: Delivering a Message
Explain to me the how the interests of public safety are served by a gang of black clad thugs showing up swaggering about and shoving people for a while, sucker punching one person and throwing another to the ground and then getting back in their cars and driving away? Are
Continue readingChris Selley goes PoMo
On why the Kenney/StuntTV faux-citizenship story doesn’t matter: I can’t help wondering: Just how “real” do we imagine TV news normally is? Do we think interview subjects really spend half the day prowling the halls at work, at roughly the pace of a cameraman walking backwards, worriedly perusing freshly printed
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tim’s Comes Out
…an obvious attempt to woo The Starbuck’s crowd. Because they are just as gay out in the burbs.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Snowy Day in a Canadian Suburb
There is something to be said for the trees and gardens of post-World War II suburbs. On a winter afternoon the setting is peaceful. This was taken in Don Mills, one of Canada’s first such developments, which still maintains many of the best points of suburban living. There aren’t sidewalks
Continue readingLaw is Cool: Occupy Ties to former Bay Street Lawyer
The Occupy movement comes from all aspects of Canadian society, including those with close family ties to the wealthy elite. Jennifer Yang of the Toronto Star provides this backgrounder on Antonin Yvon Mongeau, He chose the pseudonym “Smith,” the most common of English monikers. It is a name for regular
Continue readingThe Enlightened Savage: No Regrets
Hi there, Nation. 2 weeks have now passed since the nomination meeting for the Alberta PC’s in Calgary-Fish Creek. As most of you are no doubt aware, I was unsuccessful in my attempt to win the party’s nomination, and will therefore not be appearing on the ballot for this spring’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On uncertain measurements
Patrick has assembled an interesting response to Eric Grenier’s work in quantifying the effect of endorsements in the NDP leadership race. But while I can understand the instinct to try to put together a measurement system for endorsements as a whole, I’d think it’s worth being careful about simply adding
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Gateway is Certainly in Sinopec’s Interests. It is in No way in Canada’s National Interests
Defenceless: Selling Our Sovereignty Glavin’s been writing a series of articles on our retreat from even gesturing in the direction of national security interests in our trade and foreign investment dealings. We are sacrificing both our natural resources and sovereign power in the interests of what is clearly a neoliberal agenda:
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Lazy Loitering Louts
In light of the Occupy movements, younger people will find this vintage video from Vancouver, very vivid. You have to wait until the very end too for a killer video joke. The mayor, pictured in 1968, passed away yesterday at age 85. His vision lives on in the 1%. ==
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Summing Up Republicans In One Paragraph
The Miami Herald’s Leonard Pitts has captured the sorry face of today’s Republican party and he did it in just a few lines: Under Reagan, optimism about the future was the Republican brand. But that brand has curdled in the ensuing 30 years and the party that once sold hope
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Polar Bear Tonja
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Continue readingHard news and straight talk (snerk)
Employees of Canada’s unofficial state broadcaster keep scraping away, but the barrel appears to be bottomless. StuntTV has it all: production values not worthy of high-school theatre, the unfunny Ezra Levant in drag, Michael “Black thugs” Coren’s latest on the Moozlum threat, Krista Erickson’s self-caricature, interviews with neo-Nazis, low-budget StuntNews
Continue readingWhat will the neighbours think?
One part of the brain can work something out while another part is doing something else, or so it seems. the regina mom stayed up all night. When that happens, it’s usually because she’s been engaged in a good read or a good write. This time it was neither. And
Continue readingThe WATB reaction from the right over the grass roots push back over Komen’s political coming out
Who’s goose stepping now, WSJ and National Review? One of the most amusing repercussions of the Komen implosion and the causal reaction of hundreds of thousands of individual voices, including bloggers and some of the media, to Komen’s actions towards Planned Parenthood is the whining and accusations of ‘gangsterism’, ‘goose stepping’ and
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