How about a bit of totally nonsensical speculation of the order of “Hitler is alive and well living in Argentina”. Something utterly absurd. I bring to this speculation a very unique history – I’m the only person in captivity who’s been fired…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Occupy Wall Street vs the GOP leadership contest
Since the 2010 midterms, the dominant topic in American domestic politics has been on deficit reduction. The rhetoric built up for a while and then culminated in the twin crises over the potential government shut down and then the raising of the debt c…
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: tick tick tick… defusing ed stelmach’s tory time-bomb.
Restoring $107 million into the provincial Education budget, committing to hold an inquiry into the intimidation of doctors, promising increased consultations on water management, and halting (after some fumbling) the approval of two controversial electrical transmission line projects through rural Alberta, Premier Alison Redford is quickly moving to defuse the electoral time bomb of unpopular […]
Continue readingTerahertz: RCMP or a BC Provincial Police
A friend of mine recently sent an email to his MLA, which I adapted and sent to my MLA, premier Christy Clark. Her office (or potentially her personally) responded below. It’s good to see a response from one’s MLA, especially when that MLA is the premier and has stated she doesn’t plan on running in […]
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why the Occupy Movement Can’t Fail
I went down to the Occupy Toronto campground yesterday, just as the protesters were setting off on a march to City Hall. So naturally I followed them, and had a great time.Only to discover later, much to my surprise, that according to some in the …
Continue readingLeDaro: Life in Mogadishu: The world’s most dangerous city
It is an interesting and many times dangerous world we live in. The West has destroyed Somalia by dumping radioactive waste near the beaches and hence has more less ended fishing there. It is one of the most failed states in the world. Now some survive…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Sadly, due to the ‘Riders’ choice to play most of their veterans in Friday’s loss to Calgary, we didn’t get to learn much about the team’s prospects. But if nothing else, the loss did prove educational about the players currently holding down a few lin…
Continue readingthe woodshed: the birth of the tea party movement
Before Archie Bunker made bigotry just another endearing trait of old white guys, like flatulence or Republicanism, there was Joe.While Archie Bunker was eventually redeemed and learned to think past his prejudices and was, in reality, a very clever mo…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Global Warming–Discovered By A Chick?
According to conventional wisdom John Tyndall was the first to measure the variation in absorption of radiant energy by atmospheric gases and the first to predict the impact on climate of small changes in atmospheric gas composition. Overlooked by mode…
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Can we at least admit that we’re cowards?
An unsigned editorial in yesterday’s Toronto Star argues that it’s not Canada’s place or Canada’s problem to take someone like George W. Bush into custody and put him on trial for his involvement in torture. But it is up to the U.S. and its credible legal system, not the wider world, to deal with this matter. That’s codified in the Rome Statute that set up the International Criminal Court, and in the Convention against Torture. If the U.S. is unwilling or unable, complainants have recourse to the ICC itself, even though the U.S. is not a party to the statute. How credible is the American legal system when it refuses to deal with people like Bush or Cheney who have now openly admitted that they ordered the torture of detainees? This is from Article 6 of the Convention Against Torture:…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Video: The Reality of Homophobia in Sport
‘My name is Gus Johnston. I’m a writer, art director, filmmaker, and a hockey goalkeeper. And I’m also a gay man—and that’s something that I never thought I would say in such a public forum like this.”This video, from Gus Johnston, an Australian form…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Magic Of Reality
Richard Dawkins has a new new book out called the Magic of Reality. Doing the promotional rounds in the UK and the US must promote a certain amount of cognitive dissonance for Dawkins as the calibre of the questions he faces varies a great deal depending on which side of the Atlantic he’s on. Compare […]
Buckdog: Comparing The Platform Costs Of The Main Parties In The Saskatchewan Election
Economist, Erin Weir lays out the fiscal impact of platforms put forward by the two main parties contesting the current Saskatchewan Election:”Saskatchewan’s two major parties have unveiled their election platforms.The NDP’s fiscal plan is to colle…
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Hangin’ out with Janis, movin’ to Atlantis
One of the best guitar intros ever, and probably my favorite of all their songs.
Continue readingPaper Dynamite Online: The Many Masks Of Barack Obama
Whenever I’m in the company of progressives, and the topic turns to Barack Obama, the question quickly arises: "What went wrong?"Warren Kinsella recently had a similar conversation, albeit with someone who has slightly more impressive credentials than the folks I talk to: a former advisor to President Bill Clinton.So what did "the Clinton guy" have to say: the public has checked out on Obama; a
Continue readingthe reeves report: UK ‘Green Deal’ set for launch next Autumn
The Energy Act 2011 was granted royal assent in the United Kingdom on October 18, a move that will pave the way for the Green Deal to come into effect within the year. Under the plan, households will be encouraged to install energy- and cost-saving efficiencies to their homes without having to bear the full … Continue reading »
Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Erin compares the numbers behind the NDP and Sask Party platforms, with the one major difference being the windfall potash profits the Wall government wants to keep out of public hands.- Bruce Johnstone highlight…
Continue readingThem lib’rul media, Ch.471
The host of a US National Public Radio programme of opera, Lisa Simeone, has been fired by NPR for involving herself in #Occupy demonstrations in Washington. That’s right, opera. Her station is standing by her, and will try to distribute…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Sudbury’s 99%: Day 1
My first journalistic piece in awhile — written for and published at the site of the Grassroots Sudbury Media working group affiliated with The Media Co-op.
Sudbury’s 99%: Day 1
On a sunny but cool October 22, the global wave of “Oc…
Continue readingThe Skwib: Writing makes you mad
… isolator isolates!, a photo by x-ray delta one on Flickr.
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