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The Ottawa Citizen says: “The arguments of homophobes are easy enough to demolish in the open, using facts and sense. There’s no need to drive such arguments underground. Expose them to the light and they wither.”A noble sentiment, but not true. The “…

Ron Paul: Eyebrowgate, Or Just Kill Me Now:”we can’t have a man in the White House who wears fake eyebrows, and poor ones at that”Romney the dog-sh*tterer will win the Republican nomination by a hair, I guess.

The protests that have broken out south of the border and are apparently moving north are misguided in their rage. What people remember about the financial meltdown of 2008 was the crashing of the market, the credit crisis and the bank bailouts. They seem to forget that while the banks

The protests that have broken out south of the border and are apparently moving north are misguided in their rage. What people remember about the financial meltdown of 2008 was the crashing of the market, the credit crisis and the bank bailouts. They…

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"For the record, I fully support gay rights. I also fully support free speech. That means anything this side of incitement to violence. I believe the current law is dreadful, because even the wisest people find it tough to d…

It’s been a pattern with the Harper Government™ — when a decision is made to cut or eliminate funding to a long time partner, the department involved seems to go out of its way to be cruel about it. Environment Minister Peter Kent has cancelled a 34-year-old funding partnership with a major grassroots network that has helped the federal government deliver landmark policy and legislative changes to crack down on industrial polluters and protect fragile ecosystems. The Canadian Environmental Network, which helped the government engage the public in the creation of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency as well as the adoption of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, was actually told by Environment Canada in May that the government was expecting to renew funding of about $547,000 for the year. My emphasis. Now they’re laying off staff and shutting down temporarily while they try to make other funding arrangements. With a little notice, they might have been able to make a smoother transition. Hasn’t that become a familiar story in recent years? Is it just incompetence? Or do they enjoy punishing people just because they can?…

A great explanation of Occupy Wall Street–should go viral.

Get your pens out, but make sure you get your vocal chords ready too. It’s time for a deeply philosophical discussion. And what does a philosophy discussion consist of? Overestimation, arrogance and typically a disregard for nuances. Broad overestimations backed by arrogance pave the way for many wonderful theories on the meaning