No, we didn’t have Santa Claus when I was growing up. We didn’t have Christmas. Heck, we didn’t even have your primitive paleo-brain concept of religion. We did have the concept of gift-giving, and something we called Consumer Day, when we tried to boost our Neecknabian economy and give gifts.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The truth hurts #nlpoli
Brace yourself. Peter Jackson’s column in the Wednesday Telegram is spot on. Yes. You read that correctly. Peter Jackson’s column is spot on the money and the mark and the point and whatever other metaphor you want to use. The editorial on this page [in the hardcopy layout of the
Continue readingThe $19 billion prison agenda
A new report pegs the cost of the various Conservative crime bills at some $19 billion, $14 billion of which will be borne by the provinces. But hey, they’ve been given a strong mandate to get tough on crime, so cost should be no barrier to such a mandate! Really! Liberals
Continue readingeaves.ca: Open Data Day 2011 – Recaps from Around the World
This last Saturday was International Open Data Day with hackathons taking place in cities around the world. How many you ask? We can’t know for certain, but organizers around the world posted events to the wiki in over 50 cities around the world. Given the number of tweets with the
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Tom Flanagan: Out of the Closet!
Speaking on CBC’s Power & Politics show about the government’s decision to renounce the hapless Kyoto Treaty, Harper mentor and political “scientist” Tom Flanagan admits he believes global warming is a “non-problem” that he attributes possibly to “cosmic rays” and says “it’s time or the deniers to come out of
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Mosque in Hamilton Targeted
Let's see. White guy. Bald. Bomber jacket. Someone suggested it looks like J.H. Thoughts? Editorial cartoon posted on mosque door prompts hate crime investigation Nicole O’Reilly Wed Dec 07 2011 Hamilton Downtown Mosque leaders are saying they are the victims of a hate crime after two copies of a cartoon
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Investigating BC’s new police investigator
A decade ago, Richard Rosenthal left the Los Angeles prosecutors’ office to lead Portland’s new Office of Independent Police Review. L.A. Deputy District Attorney Jim Cosper said it was a good choice. However, attorney Stephen Yagman, remarking also on Portland’s selection of police chief Mark Kroeker, had the opposite view,
Continue readingBut racism as a contributing factor goes unmentioned…
Report concludes British riots provoked by police brutality and povertyBy Julie Hyland The first comprehensive investigation into the riots that swept London and other parts of England in August has confirmed that police brutality, poverty and social inequality were the primary motivating factors in their eruption. The “Reading the Riots”
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The OM Team: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s the OpenMedia.ca Team — Lindsey, Reilly, Steve, and Shea — with your weekly update: Your support means everything to our tiny team, please visit http://openmedia.ca/allies to help us continue working for you in 2012. For the Internet, Your OM Team
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Why the Sunday Express newshounds are on the trail of the Todd Bentley fox?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. As Todd Bentley moved on from Wales and prepares to visit a meeting place that is advertised as not far from London, we can mention that other British newspapers have not found the evangelist’s return to Britain to be newsworthy yet.
Continue readingcartoon life: Tuxedo cat on red
Filed under: art, digital, iPad, painting Tagged: art, Cat, painting
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: Credit where it’s due: Conservatives speak out against Nigeria’s anti-same-sex marriage bill.
The Stephen Harper Conservatives have spoken out against a proposal in Nigeria to further criminalize gays and lesbians, and — at least as significantly — those who would ally, advocate for or even just silently tolerate their existence. Yup, you heard that right. If you’ve read my other writings about
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: Aarchive: Anti-Abortion Lobby Dances on the Graves
(This post previously appeared at The Bilerico Project) Recently, leaders of Commonwealth nations met to discuss pressing international issues, and leaders from the U.K., Canada and others pressed for human rights reforms for LGBT people. British Prime Minister David Cameron went so far as to threaten to cut off aid
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: The Prime Minister’s Office Buys Maria a Fridge at the Second Sixth Estate Flack Awards
One day has now passed since the dishon. Peter MacKay threatened to sue his critics for libel, and Sixth Estate has not received any requests to take down posts “attacking his credibility.” The Sixth Estate Weekly Flack Awards are given to Cabinet ministers and their mouthpieces for going below and
Continue readingMorton's Musings: The Irwin Cotler incident
The Irwin Cotler incident, where Conservative Party operatives spread false news that Irwin Cotler had resigned and a by-election was in the offing, is more than mere political dirty tricks. It is far from uncommon for political activists to lose sight of the bigger picture and go too far. Sometimes,
Continue readingcmkl: So… crawling in from the work Christmas party
I went up to say goodnight to Irene and she told me that the evening had been uneventful but that Mallory had been sad that she wouldn’t say goodnight to me. I neglected to warn her that I wouldn’t be home before her bedtime.
Continue readingImpolitical: Hillary’s historic speech
You go, Hillary! You can watch the rest of her historic speech here and the transcript is here.
Continue readingBecause This Is Her Heyday.
FinalsSchminals CollegeVille Bigger E. is in the midst of hell week, what with all the papers, and studying, and exams and such. Which, as I told her, just means that she is, at most, a hundred or so floors below Hank Williams. And/or Mic Christopher. And the funny thing is,
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Loontastic!
If anything seems to elicit the barely disguised lunatic aspect of almost every Republican politician (with a few notable exceptions such as Ron Paul and Gary Johnson), it’s their desperate need to almost comically “out-crazy” one another with bellicose, war-mongering rhetoric whenever speaking to radical right-wing Jewish special interest groups.
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