Hockey normally gets very short shrift here, unless I’m wank-listing Don Fucking Cherry for his latest rockum-sockum case of Teh Stoopid. But this time, the tacky thing at the rink wasn’t him or his suit, it was what someone else tossed onto the ice: Yes, that is a dildo. And
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Some call them drones…
…others call them Job Creators: America’s growing drone operations rely on hundreds of civilian contractors, including some, such as the SAIC employee, who work in the so-called kill chain before Hellfire missiles are launched, according to current and former military officers, company employees and internal government documents. Relying on private
Continue readingSpyware for Arab despots: Germany’s latest source of shame
Wikileaks just keeps exposing the imperialist underside of western “democracy”. And one of the latest to be embarrassed by revelations is Germany — an unlikely player in the imperial game, seeing as it’s been officially out of it since World War II ended. But what used to be done overtly
Continue reading“Did you call him a piece of shit?”
Justin Trudeau, Liberal MP for Papineau, explains why he lost his shit at so-called environment minister Peter Fucking Kent yesterday in the House of Commons. He apologizes for his intemperate language but, take note, NOT for the sentiments expressed therein. I think the only thing he should have apologized for
Continue readingStupid Sex Tricks: Beds are for sleeping, subways are for screwing
Subway sex at Spadina Station. Only in TO, folks. From the Toronto Star, in both cases, we have the following funny Canadian contradiction. First, the sad news that we’re not getting a lot of nooky: While it stands to reason that Canada’s cold climate would be enough to send us
Continue readingDecember 6, 1989: A song of remembrance
A ballad by Bev Nicol and Lisa Dorian. According to the notes posted by Bev Nicol at YouTube, “The chorus comes from the words of survivor Nathalie Provost who said to the killer, ‘We are only women who are studying engineering. We are only women who want to live a
Continue readingHow to justify a police state, or “This ain’t Canada anymore”
How do you justify police brutality on the level of last year’s G20 summit? And how do you justify turning Canada into a most unCanadian police state? Well, it helps if you get the media on side, as whoever infiltrated an “anarchist” gathering and took this top-seekwit hidden recording found
Continue readingWhat you’re not being told about Libya
Bob Powell of Above Top Secret neatly unpacks the Libyan revolution-that-wasn’t. Some interesting shockers I hadn’t heard yet include the presence of al-Qaida, apparently operating with CIA blessing, in the “National Transitional Council”, and the presence of Qatari troops, in their own country’s uniform and speaking with distinctly non-African accents,
Continue readingVenezuela’s gold comes home
Don’t expect to read anything good about this in your lamestream English media. And don’t expect to see these pictures, either: Citizens of Caracas hold up a banner thanking President Chávez for bringing home the gold in the name of their sovereignty. A welcoming crowd lines the streets of Caracas
Continue readingPeter Kent, ignorant SupposiTory hack
Q. How does one get to be Minister of the Environment without any scientific knowledge whatsoever? A. By being a faithful, appointed HarpoCon hack beforehand, and then coasting into office on that. BTW, Peter Kent hates Venezuela. So it’s no surprise that he has scant respect for anything on Earth
Continue readingQuotable: Sir John A. Macdonald on US imperialism
Image by Tigana Too. Yes, my Latin American amig@s, it’s true. Nosotr@s, l@s canadienses, somos el OTRO patio trasero de los EEUU. We’re the US’s OTHER backyard, and we’ve been just as much subject to their imperialism as you. So far, we’ve been luckier keeping them off our necks. There
Continue readingToronto Zoo’s gay penguins go viral
By now you’ve surely heard of Buddy and Pedro, the two adorable little African penguins at the Toronto Zoo who’ve struck up an adorable little same-sex pair bond but are being separated in order to mate their “top-notch genes” with those of eligible females? Well, their plight has gone viral, thanks to the famous Taiwanese […]
Continue readingAn open letter to Brendan O’Neill
Dear Brendan O’Neill: You, sir, are a fucking idiot. How’d you like it if I found out where you lived? What would you say if I ferreted out everything about you, from what you eat, to what drugs you do, to how and whom you like to shag, and published all the above right here, […]
Continue readingStupid Sex(less) Tricks: No cuddling, please, we’re British
Okay. Leaving out the obvious gender stereotyping that the media are crammed full of (guys don’t like to cuddle? Not in MY experience), it’s shit like this, Britain… A staggering 32 per cent of UK females admit they can’t stand cuddling when in bed, but force themselves into a clinch to avoid upsetting their partner. […]
Continue readingCops Behaving Badly: Yeah, they blend RIGHT in.
What? You didn’t think there’d be police infiltrators (or would-be infiltrators) at Occupy TO? Watch this, naïve soul… Yeah, guys, you’re so discreet with your butch haircuts, your steroid builds, and your earpieces and walkie-talkies and cute widdle cellphone cameras. Next time, just wear your uniforms; it’s not as though you don’t stick out like […]
Continue readingHarper Government™ in pocket of NRA, gun manufacturers. Also, stupid on crime.
It’s getting shittier than ever to be a Canadian, and we are all hanging our heads and shaking them in shame. Because “free” trade (note the quotes) isn’t enough to sell our asses downriver, now Harpo & Co. have sold us out to the gun lobby. Yes, really. The powerful Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle used […]
Continue readingBeware that “haunted house”. And “Jesus Ween”, too.
Christ, what is it with the Religious Reich? Bad enough that they had to steal all our Old Religion holidays out from under us and try to turn them into things they are not. Now they’re relying on them as a source of crapaganda, with heavy overtones of gore-porn: PASADENA, TX (KTRK) — A local […]
Continue readingFestive Left Friday Blogging: Happy 1-month birthday, OWS!
Occupy Wall Street is now one month old, and still going strong. It’s also spreading across the continent and around the world. Virtually all major cities in North America (and quite a few minor ones as well) now have “Occupy” movements. And, if the news is to be believed, the powers-that-be are getting mighty nervous […]
Continue readingThe National Pest “apologizes”
A few days ago, the National Pest published an extremely homophobic (and blatantly accusatory) ad about public schooling in Ontario. Today, we get this non-apology apology, or non-retraction retraction, if you will… Earlier this week the National Post ran an advertisement that has caused some controversy. The ad, bought by the Institute for Canadian Values, […]
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