I make no comment: I but juxtapose. [T]he Circumlocution Office went on mechanically, every day, keeping this wonderful, all-sufficient wheel of statesmanship, How not to do it, in motion. Because the Circumlocution Office was down upon any ill-advised public servant…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jimbo Flaherty’s Ridiculous Economic Update
As usual he didn’t see it coming. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. But goodness knows little Jimbo Flaherty is determined to try to fool us into thinking he’s flexible.”We will not be bound by ideology when it comes to making decisions to keep our econ…
Continue readingHey, Andrea Mrozek! Why Don’t You Practice what You Preach?
No, not at that dreadful site, Prowoman Pro-fetus. Her other activity, as manager of research and Communications at the Institute of Stepford wifery. You, boys ‘n’ girls, perhaps know it as the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. …
Continue readingTrick or Fet(us)
Ewwwwwww: Some adults are appalled that children in Loganville got dolls of 12-week-old fetuses with their Halloween candy, Channel 2 Action News reports. […] Joshua Edmonds, who told Channel 2 Action News he is a senior minister of the Christian soc…
Continue readingMurray Dobbin Repost: Stephen Harper’s social engineering
The Harper government’s announcement that it will change the laws regarding capital gains taxes to encourage more charitable giving strikes an ominous note for the country’s political culture. Harper is mimicking the Conservatives in Britain who …
Continue readingLeadership!
Occupy Denver picks a leader: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock insisted that his city’s occupation name a leader in order “to deal with City and State officials.” And he got his wish! Occupy Denver has elected Shelby, a border collie, as …
Continue readingWilly Loman: How do you tell someone you love them when you are dead
Someone is pushing bad shit out there tonight, my busy ER nurse informed me. Apparently seven ODs on a Sunday night is large number at the Credit Valley ER. Patients from Saturday, were already lined up in the hallways, with exhausted, vigil holding, parents, children or spouses, curled up in
Continue readingIf you go down to Tent City today
You’re in for a big surprise If you go down to Tent City today You better go in disguise… …preferably in a hazmat suit: An Occupy Victoria protester who has moved his demonstration into a tree is being accused of pouring a two-litre…
Continue readingElection night in US. Sanity returning?
Signs of sanity returning to the US of A!
TPM Blog
Ohio voters turned back a anti-union law and the good folks of Mississippi look to be dumping personhood.
Can we all take a breather?
Continue readingThe Wheatsheaf: Recap: Saskatchewan Election 2011
Watching the twitter feed for #skpoli I was struck by the animosity and venom towards both the NDP and its leader Dwain Lingenfelter. While the partisan in me wants to chalk this up to the over-indulgent no-holds-barred mentality that I have witness Sask. Party/Conservative/Canadian Alliance supporters adopt in the past,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Packed-up cats.
Continue readingRusty Idols: "just another bad thing that happened in downtown Vancouver
Somebody overdoses decently out of sight in the east end and the response from the Vancouver government, the media and too much of public is a collective shrug. Have it happen 15 blocks to the west and suddenly its an urgent public health and safety crisis. Ashlie Gough was happy
Continue readingkirbycairo: What I Remember on Remembrance Day, The Unpopular Recall. . . . .
I honestly believe that Remembrance Day (or Veteran’s Day as it was in the States when I grew up) does a significant and and lasting disservice to veterans of all wars and to our nations in general, at least in its modern incarnation. One would have to…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: An impassioned gale
In 1908’s New Worlds for Old, H.G. Wells examined a nascent movement that he supported avidly. He wrote,
“The early Socialist literature teems with rash, suggestive schemes. It has the fertility, the confusion, the hopefulness, the promise of glowing y…
Red Tory v.3.0.3: Zygotes ≠ “Persons”
While it may be argued in the most technically extreme biological sense that “life begins at conception” as devoutly religious people maintain to be the case, it is a complete absurdity to contend that a fertilized egg (aka a zygote) … Continue reading →
Life...A Small Spark Between Two Eternities: Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2011-11-08 21:14:00
Now Rob Ford, tell us you are not a little jealous.
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: The Warmongers Are On The March
Remember the Iraq war? Wasn’t all that murder and torture awesome? Didn’t taking out Saddam make the world a better place, help the economy to hum along smoothly and unite us all in one glorious, orgasmic moment of unity and brotherhood? No? Well get ready boys and girls because the
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: The Warmongers Are On The March
Remember the Iraq war? Wasn’t all that murder and torture awesome? Didn’t taking out Saddam make the world a better place, help the economy to hum along smoothly and unite us all in one glorious, orgasmic moment of unity and brotherhood? No? Well get r…
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: The Warmongers Are On The March
Remember the Iraq war? Wasn’t all that murder and torture awesome? Didn’t taking out Saddam make the world a better place, help the economy to hum along smoothly and unite us all in one glorious, orgasmic moment of unity and brotherhood? No? Well get ready boys and girls because the
Continue readinggay persons of color: French weekly Charlie Hebdo proposes love not war
This image with the caption L’Amour plus fort que la haine (love is stronger than hate) is on the front page of the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo, the French magazine whose offices were fire-bombed in Paris last week after it was announced that the p…
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