Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis star in BBC Radio 4 program “The Now Show.” It is British oriented political satire but still one of my favourites. You can listen to current programs on the BBC IPlayer or download programs by podcast. This is one of the features of the weekly
Continue readingcmkl: Mallory plays ‘Sailing’
Not the Christopher Cross version. Note to self: iPhone videos work better in horizontal mode. Note also to self: say something about those bloody cops in UC Davis. Will they get fired after getting videoed doing something awful?
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Sad news
Justice Douglas Coo has died. He was a model judge and a true gentleman. While he was careful and thorough he was never afraid to make decisions. He was a leader in Divisional Court and his work on the Consent and Capacity Board and the Ontario Review Board is well
Continue readingImpolitical: Saturday night
To make up for having missed music posting time last night. Going with another Deadmau5 because funnily enough, my mother emailed me after I last posted one of his tracks to say that she really liked it. My mother the hipster! She was sick this week with the flu so
Continue readingWankers of the Week: A keg of vintage swine
Crappy weekend, everyone! Last week it was slops; this week it’s hawg-butcherin’ time, and we’ve got a fat lot of pigs to get through. So here they are, with no further ado and in no particular order… 1. Mohammad Fucking Shafia. How ironic is it that his idea of “maintaining”
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Empire Strikes Back
The oligarchy is worried, as they should be. They are losing the middle class.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Empire Strikes Back
The oligarchy is worried, as they should be. They are losing the middle class.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Empire Strikes Back
The oligarchy is worried, as they should be. They are losing the middle class.
Continue readingBuckdog: Saskatchewan’s New Democrats Select Interim Leader
November 19, 2011NDP Selects Acting Leader The Saskatchewan NDP has elected John Nilson to serve as Acting Leader of the NDP until such time as a new Leader is chosen in a leadership race. In a meeting today at Tommy Douglas House in Regina, the Provincial Council and elected NDP
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Shades of Green: Pleading Guilty – "By their deeds shall ye know them"
Perspective is an illuminating rarity that can take years to occur. Disparate pieces drift in an incoherent jumble until they begin to coalesce into a understandable pattern. Then clarity reveals connections and relationships. Insight comes out of confusion. Order replaces chaos. The pieces cohere into a meaningful whole. The design
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your afternoon reading. – Stephen Maher exhorts the Cons to stop stifling democratic debate, featuring a strong point by NDP MP Jack Harris: When Harris was first elected to Parliament in 1987, he said, and Brian Mulroney had a majority, the government regularly adopted opposition amendments. “We
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Free Egypt, Free Syria from Regina
Protesters are clashing with authorities in Egypt’s Tahrir Square again. This video’s screenshot amazed me. Occupy Regina supported the Freedom for Syria rally in Victoria Park today.
Continue readingImpolitical: Elizabeth Warren and leaderitis
A very intelligent piece in the NY Times on Elizabeth Warren’s run for Senate and in particular the expectations that are being placed on her: “Heaven Is a Place Called Elizabeth Warren.” I liked this part at the end that is a fair description of an affliction that happens in
Continue readingFear And Loathing In….Davis?
AllTheAuthoritySongsThatFit UCCampusVille Yesterday, we linked to the inspirational hijinks by the kids at UC Berkeley who responded with levity, quite literally, after they got a dose of authority thrown in their faces a week or so ago. But, all snark aside, if you were a kid on the Quad of
Continue readingHellberta: November mid-month round-up: Occupy dies, the New World Order is born, the revolution begins
The Occupy movement is dead. Seriously. In it’s place however is the new American revolution. They look similar, and the new American revolution is still calling itself Occupy, but they are very different. I’ll point out this difference for you in a very simple contrast of thought:1) Occupy: When it
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Occupy Regina Marches with Free Syria Rally
A Free Syria Rally was in Victoria Park today, so the Occupy Regina protesters participated in denouncing the violence against Syrian civilians who have been disappearing by the thousands when they stand up to their oppressive government. A comment on the Occupy Regina facebook page: a HUGE thank you to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper EnviroShill Kent Calls Opposition "Treacherous"
According to Harper’s greasy EnviroShill, Peter Kent, two NDP MPs who went to Washington to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline were “treacherous.” “One of the opposition parties has taken the treacherous course of leaving the domestic debate and heading abroad to attack a legitimate Canadian resource which is being responsibly
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Blunt Object’s Projections: Did I Do Well, At All?
This is a quick post, modeled somewhat after how Eric Grenier does it, for each of my projections this past provincial election season. First up, Ontario: OntarioProjection – 58 Lib, 29 PC, 20 NDP (38.5% Lib, 33.9% PC, 23.5% NDP, 3.0% Grn)Actual – 53 Lib, 37 PC, 17 NDP (37.6%
Continue readingWhat @justinsb said re @goldsbie
Bear with me tweeps. My Mac’s in the shop. Doing this all on Blackberry, so I can’t Storify the relevant tweets, but someone should. (No names *cough* mcgrath *cough* ) I don’t know the full story about who outed whom, or how and when journalistic ethics were breached, or whether
Continue readingTrashy's World: Yoga-loving Libertarians?
So Lululemon, that crazy popular (and overpriced) yoga and fitness apparel shop is causing a bit of a tizzy because they put the words “Who is John Galt” on their shopping bags. In late October, the company began using shopping bags with the words “Who is John Galt?” a catchphrase
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