I don’t say this enough. One of the very best things about being cenobyte is the quality and quantity of cenobyte’s friends. Thank you for being so wonderful. And especially for putting up with the likes of cenobyte.
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Can’t. Stop. Laughing!!!!
Oh, we know we shouldn't, but we just can't get enough of the Goudreau. He really is our guilty pleasure. Last night it came to our attention that the Goudreau has a twitter account. Curious, we decided to take a look. While everything he twitters is the mundane crap he
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Are We Supposed to Take the Media Seriously, Or Not?
The Conservative denial machine is in full swing this afternoon, as I predicted it would be yesterday. Now that Stephen Harper has deliberately made himself complicit in the lie, we may be quite sure that his arrogant, deceitful kleptocrat of a deputy, Peter MacKay, will never be disciplined for lying
Continue readingcartoon life: Peter Pinocchio
Filed under: caricature, illustration Tagged: caricature, Conservatives, humour, Lies, parliament, Peter Mackay, politics
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night
Tonight’s opener is an instrumental by Kenny Vaughan called Shimmy. Welcome to another Friday night. This is the Robben Ford Trio with a cover of Willie Dixon’s Spoonful. They speed it up some. VOLUME ALERT! If you cranked it up for that last one you might want to bring it
Continue readingImpolitical: Party like it’s 1812
Can you feel the 1812 commemorative vibe, people? It’s coming, get ready. A Conservative MP, Gord Brown, on his riding’s 1812 re-enactment plans, somewhat lacking in specificity: Here’s a description of some of the plans, from his release: The Lions Club of Gananoque will present a community commemoration of the
Continue readingEdwin Current: Impeach Mayor Rob Ford "Quimby"
So I’m kinda dumb sometimes and I was wondering if it’s possible to impeach a mayor to get them out of office. So of course I did a Google search on “impeach the mayor”. Now I’m not sure if it’s just because Google searches use your region in the algorithm but
Continue readingEdwin Current: Impeach Mayor Rob Ford "Quimby"
So I’m kinda dumb sometimes and I was wondering if it’s possible to impeach a mayor to get them out of office. So of course I did a Google search on “impeach the mayor”. Now I’m not sure if it’s just because Google searches use your region …
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: What will you tell us next?
More sleaze reports: Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? Federal Judge Pimp-Slaps the SEC Over Citigroup Settlement Congressional perks: Lawmakers’ most surprising benefits Super-PACs and Dark Money: ProPublica’s Guide to the New World of Campaign Finance More Money Can Beat Big Money
Continue readingOWS gives Luntz The Fear
Scary Occupy Wall Street has given infamous GOP strategist Frank Luntz The Fear: The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans do a
Continue reading350 or bust: Canada’s Mandate At Durban Climate Talks Clear: Negotiate On Behalf Of Tar Sands, Not Canadians’ Future
A perspective on Day 5 of the Durban climate negotiations, from Ani, a member of the Canadian Youth Delegation representing Manitoba at the Durban climate conference. Ani works as a Public Education and Outreach Coordinator for Climate Change Connection, a project of the Manitoba Eco-Network. To read more, visit Ani’s
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Old Talking Points Die Hard: "Climate Change Is Beneficial" Edition
Climate-Change.jpg If you follow the cycle of anti-climate change talking points, you’ll notice a pattern that repeats itself every few years. In between spurts of outright denial, the anti-science crowd will occasionally revert back to a less-heard talking point: Climate change is actually a good thing. Even as the year
Continue readingcartoon life: My favourite kitty
Filed under: art, cartoon, digital, drawing Tagged: Cat, hair, shed
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Occupy Christmas
OCCUPY CHRISTMAS! (Santa photo originally from from Tumbleweed:-) and released under Creative Commons license) Santa’s been abusing the 99% elves at his North Pole cold-shop. Lt. Pike comes to the elves’ rescue with his peppermint candy cane spray.
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Eddie Long divorce – on again, off again
Friday morning; I’m divorcing my husband. Court papers filed. Vanessa Long has been married to Eddie Long, head of the Atlanta New Birth Missionary Baptist Church since 1990, it is Eddie Long’s second marriage. Vanessa Long stated in the filing that the Long marriage was irretrievably broken with no hope
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Sharing urban roads
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Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Smeared But Still Fighting, Cornell’s Tony Ingraffea Debunks Gas Industry Myths
ingraffea.jpg Cornell University Professors Robert Howarth and Anthony Ingraffea made waves in April 2011 when they unveiled what is now known simply as the "Cornell Study." Published in a peer-reviewed letter in the academic journal Climatic Change Letters, the study revealed that, contrary to the never-ending mythology promulgated by the gas
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Rob Ford Continues To Make An Ass of Himself
While the title of this post might strike many as redundant, even I, despite having borne witness to a great deal of asinine behaviour over the years, was surprised to see the following headline on The Star’s website a few minutes ago: Mayor Rob Ford to Toronto: Don’t read the
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: One Bank to Rule them All
Centrist and leftist economists have been spending a lot of column inches wondering what has possessed the European central bank top brass lately. Even some mainstream to right-wing economists seem disturbed. The general consensus seems to be that the European crisis could have been avoided by the ECB acting as
Continue readingAide: Prime Minister’s hairpiece made in China
OTTAWA – A former aide to Prime Minister Cowboy Steve said today that the leader’s hairpiece was made in China. The PMO staffer, who left the government in July, also asserted that the piece was ‘prêt-à-porter’, rather than custom made. “Honest to God, with all his money, power and status
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