An array of stories related to ‘excited delirium’.
Continue readingThe Pantsafire Chronicles: Diane Finley
The latest Harper Cabinet blazer is Minister of Human Resources Diane Finley. She’s been making patently false accusations against front-line workers in employment centres to cover up own grievous mishandling of her portfolio. Pressing ahead with her plans to close most employment centres across the country (from the present 120
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Soul of the Nation
Last April, as part of a larger post, I write the following about the pernicious effects of bad political leadership: If we consider, for example, the widespread cynicism and disengagement gripping people today, we are witnessing the effects of bad leadership. When people are manipulated by the politics of fear,
Continue readingConservatives: to hell with the courts. Where’s the outrage?
Conservatives and family gather in Chicago to re-enact the ‘good ol’ days’ With the Wheat Board fiasco roaring, the Conservatives don’t seem to care about rule of law or even ‘the normal legislative process’. How are Canadians not being affected by this obvious abuse of law? Aren’t the Conservatives the
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Iceland Photo
Your Scandinavia Photos — National Geographic. Filed under: Beautiful Tagged: nature photography
Continue readingRecreating Eden: The Future of Canada’s Health Care System: Don’t Forget NDP Outremont’s Forum on Saturday.
Don’t forget:Three panelists of note will participate in a forum on the future of our health care system, organized by the Outremont NDP Riding Association. Mathieu Vick, parliamentary assistant to Anne Minh Thu Quach, NDP MP for Salaberry-Beauharnois and deputy critic for Health will be the moderator. The panelists: Michèle
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Abuse of Power
Jennifer Ditchburn reports this morning that, having installed a new unilingual auditor general, the Conservatives would rather not hear from him: Five different individuals – inside and outside Auditor-General Michael Ferguson’s office – told The Canadian Press this week that officials there expect the opportunities for him to testify on
Continue readingTom Flanagan: Time For Climate Change Deniers to Come Out of The Closet
Yep, ol’ Tom is a denier and proud of it, boys ‘n’ girls! He also wants all deniers to ‘come out of the closet’! Er, Tom, hasn’t that ship already sailed a long time ago, and haven’t they been debunked over and over again? Somewhere, Dr Jabba the Roy must
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Still No Digital Goldmine For National Post
This article is several hundred words of Paul Godfrey whistling past the grave-yard. Meanwhile, PostMedia stocks take a familiar course: Meanwhile, they’ve turned out the lights to trim their power bills in the PostMedia HQ just down the road from me. Jonathon Kay and his mom huddle in the darkness, burning
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Ethical Smoke – Replay
If dumping megatonnes of extra carbon dioxide into earth’s atmosphere produces ethical tar sands oil, I suppose eco-friendly ethical cigarettes are plausible too. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., a subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, is advertising its Natural American Spirit cigarettes as earth friendly, additive-free, and organically grown. Consumer
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Friday Classical Music Interlude – Cello Wars?
Silly. Oh so silly. Filed under: Music Tagged: Cello Wars, Friday Musical Interlude, The Piano Guys
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for December 9, 2011
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, December 9, 2011: Durban climate talks mean life or death for poor island states http://bit.ly/rQPQaN Maple Leaf Sports nearing billion-dollar sale to Bell Media, Rogers partnership (Yahoo! Sports) http://yhoo.it/voc0rW Wisc. law unfairly caps consumer attorney fees at 3x damages
Continue readinggay persons of color: Should Rick Perry’s YouTube ad be banned as hate speech?
The question, broached by Amber MacArthur in Thursday’s The Globe and Mail, comes with its own set of issues that perhaps merits a bit of precision. As MacArthur points out: “The Perry video is an open attack on the gay community. He clearly implies that homosexuals should not be allowed
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Peter Kent: Let’s do Nothing!
Our Environment minister wants Kyoto to die and wait until 2015 to make a new accord. Why not just start a new accord now why wait three years? Our Environment minister is playing in the past were it would be just enough just to say that we should talk about making an accord. While
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany – robots, OC Transpo and the Leafs!
It’s about time the Board moved to do something about the negative image and messages that Christmas imparts! Way to go Androgynous, Holiday-Neutral Robot! Long may you, uh, live… Thanks to the O-dot for breaking this story… ______________________________________________________________________________________________ So a UBC study has found that we atheists are as distrusted
Continue readingThe Skwib: Ask General Kang: Do you have Santa Claus on your home planet?
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
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