Shorter Conrad Black: A gentleman such as oneself is apt to miss the comforts of the fairer sex when unjustly incarcerated by one’s inferiors and one’s good lady wife declines to pay a conjugal visit citing the discomforts of the unfashionable ac…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Inherit The Wind
Forty two years ago, I was preparing to teach my first classes. I had spent the summer at the University of North Carolina, studying John Dewey, Jerome Bruner, Carl Rogers and American Literature. I was one of about fifty students who were about to ent…
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: Clubs and Societies at Mount Allison University
20 Tips in 20 Days for first-year students: #2 – Choose a
club that matches your interests
Second in this
20-part video series is my friend Alex Dalton (fifth-year Honours international
relations) discussing the best way to choose the …
The Happy Wanderer: The Liberals are UP!
A new poll shows that the Conservatives are at 36.2, The Liberals at 27.0% and the NDP at 26.8%. We are now just over a month past the last election the NDP and the Liberals are now in a tie. And the Conservatives are now at their minority levels. Not …
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 9, 2011
Here are today’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Bribery Got Bin Laden – http://goo.gl/j7r49Wage gap growing between male, female lawyers – Canadian Lawyer Magazine – http://goo.gl/FyEGUUS Supreme Court Justice Breyer at Toronto ABA An…
Continue readingOf course they support us to have massive colourful orgiastic ecstatic street fetes…
when we do not laugh and gyrate and forget…
we remember and rage and resist and their streets burn…
if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you…
Continue readingThe Skwib: Ask General Kang: Is it a correction? Please tell me it’s a correction! Should I sell?
Yep, there’s nothing trickier to manipulate than a system based on fear and greed. You humans should consider changing your approach to markets. Back on my home planet, I changed our stock market system to take most of the greed out of it, and increased the amount of fear. How, you ask? Simple. On a […]
Continue readinggay persons of color: DOMA to break up seven-year marriage and 19-year relationship
This is why the American Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) needs to be repealed. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have denied immigration benefits to a bi-national married gay couple in San Francisco and have ordered the expulsion of the Australi…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Does London have an NHL team?
The editorials about London and the ongoing riots reflect, as always, the writers' predisposition. The riots are a sign of moral decay, failed government cutbacks, racism, British national character, global warming (I really did see that on one blo…
Continue readingYes, i think it is…
from scission…
THE FUTURE IS TOTTENHAM?
As the USA rapidly continues its rapid descent today, we turn instead to England which went down a whiles back and is a hint of the future. What are called “riots” by some, “uprisings”…
BigCityLib Strikes Back: Shaidle’s Hubby Still Getting Sued
Arnie Lemaire, of Imaginit Technologies, is still in trouble with Richard Warman:Latest – Warman v. Arnie Lemaire (aka Blazingcatfur and husband of Kathy Shaidle). In December of 2010, this libel action was moved into simplified proceeding…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Babylon Burns While I Fish
I’m on a bit of a holiday this week, at a rental cottage up in the Muskokas. It’s quiet, the air is clean and the loons are warbling as sun sets. Meanwhile the world seems to be going to hell in a hangbasket – what’s up with that?
Global stock markets…
Continue readingImpolitical: Carbon taxes may be the new debt reducers
There is an op-ed in the Globe today by Todd Hirsch, a Calgary-based senior economist at a financial firm out there: “Debt is the new carbon.” His premise is essentially as his title states, that climate change, despite a lack of action to date, will f…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Changing the game
Politics, Don Jamieson once said, is no place for fools. But you don’t have to be a fool to expect that people act with basic human decency. Definitely not acting with such decency are the number of people over the course of Monday who spent very l…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Piss
Drought-Stricken Texas Town faces choice between conserving water or drinking own waste products, chooses to drink own waste products. The American spirit is strong in these ones. Not that I should really be making li…
Continue readingALTAVISTAGOOGLE: Acadie Nouvelle gratuit via le site de la bibliothèque
Des photos en noire et blanc, en 2011, c’est plutôt triste. Surtout sur un iPad!Ceci-dit, lorsqu’on lie quelques chose sur l’app Kobo en mode "nuit",et qu’il y a une photo en noir et blanc…En passant, vous pouvez maintenant télécharger gratuitement l’AcadieNouvelle du jour via le site de la bibliothèque (auparavant il y avaitun délais de trois jours). http://gnb.ca/0003
Continue readingLibya, Australia, Brazil
The Foreign Affairs committee met yesterday
afternoon to discuss the situation in Libya. The progress is largely halting,
with mere incremental progress, and small surprise, the NDP don’t want to
extend the military mission past Septe…
Montreal Simon: The London Riots: When Anger Burns
You may have noticed that London is burning. The flames of anger are spreading .The violence, which began in Tottenham, north London, on Saturday spread south and east to Brixton, Streatham, Walthamstow, Edmonton, Enfield, Oxford Circus and Isling…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Coalition Calls on Harper to Cut Online Spying Mandate from Omnibus Crime Package
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Joint letter questions why government is avoiding debate on ‘chilling’ legislation
August 9, 2011 – A group of academics and public interest organizations released a joint lett…
Montreal Simon: Preparing for the Greatest Recession
It was another hot and humid day in Hogtown. But that didn’t stop me from running down to the golden towers of Bay Street. I wanted to see if the brokers and other stock stuffers were jumping out of the windows after another bad day…
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