The website godchecker.com lists roughly 4,000 “weird and wonderful Gods, Supreme Beings, Demons, Spirits and Fabulous Beasts” which have been worshipped since the beginning of recorded history. Many are still being worshipped. It’s quite an amusing and exhaustive collection of deities, demons, and demigods like saints. All gods and demons
Continue readingTag: Culture wars
Scripturient: Musings on the Post-Xmas Days
I am glad to have reached the first week in January of 2024 without telling a lot of people to simply fuck off and leave me alone during the past month. The urge is, I’m afraid, great and growing stronger every year. The Xmas season does that to me, beginning
Continue readingScripturient: That Fake War on Xmas
In my part of Canada the “war on Xmas” begins in September when some local box stores start putting Xmas ornaments and decorations out, sometimes just after Labour Day. By mid-October there are whole store sections dedicated to pushing gaudy, offshore-made, increasingly tacky lights and displays. Then the canned Xmas
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Blue Versus Red – a War of the Wealthy
The ever widening gap between Red and Blue America exists mainly among the wealthy.The New York Times reports that a study based on exit polls shows lower-income Americans, whether from Blue or Red states, tend to favour the Democratic Party. The…
Continue readingWar on drugs. NDP vs. Liberals.
I’ve been increasingly hard on the Liberals since the first days post-Chretien. So much so, I’ve gravitated towards the NDP. A prime indicator for me of my feelings towards the parties has been that which distinguishes their attitudes towards the war on drugs, particularly in regards to victimless pot. For
Continue readingOrange Blood II, the NDP Edition…
This is about the NDP Leadership Convention 2012, and why I think that democracy has failed. I became a member of the NDP for the BCNDP Leadership race. My partner and I both joined the Party to support our MLA, John Horgan. A man of principle, who listened to the
Continue readingOh Peggy, Your Anti-Quebec Bias Is Showing!
Peggy Wente first goes into her commentary over Patrick Brazeau and Justin Trudeau’s boxing match last week-end and saying that Justin Trudeau would not be a good leader for the Liberals, because the west hates his dad, yadda! yadda! yadda. Yes, I’m sure Peggy would be one of the first
Continue readingWoody-Worthless!
Boys ‘n’ girls, it seems that that abortion debate is going to be reopened, whether we want it to or not. Yikes! Even certain “progressive” bloggers seem to be taking a shine to it. This one seems to not like it when a reporter is doing his/her job when questioning
Continue readingBye Bye Saulie!
Saulie Zajdel, former Harpercon candidate who ran against Irwin Cotler in Mount-Royal and up until today, James Moore’s “employee” has left under the same cloak of secrecy he was hired under. Yep, ol’ Saulie resigned his post as Irwin Cotler’s shadow. “I’m no longer working for the federal government,” Zajdel
Continue reading(face)Plant
The former Attorney General, Geoff Plant has a blog! He has some advice today For Mr. Von DingDong(en). Dear John, (I know, Lol, that’s been done before, but bear with me!) I understand that one of the issues which caused you to leave the BC Liberal caucus and party is
Continue readingIs It Just Me, or Does Anyone Else Find the Timing of the Latest Harpercon Ads a Tad Curious?
Yep, boys ‘n’ girls, the Harpercons have come out with a new shiny thing–an attack ad against the Liberal interim leader, Bob Rae. I guess it’s never too early to get a jump start on that election campaign now, is it? I mean, they better get chopping now!! Only 3
Continue readingHey Tea Party, STOP RAPING PEOPLE! Behave yourselves!
Tea Party leader and former regional director of the Southern California Conservative Party has been arrested for kidnapping and rape. Sorry, I just had to get my morning BREITBART on. X-posted at Let Freedom Rain. UPDATE: Judging from Memeorandum, this news has barely dented the wingnutosphere, not to mention prog blogs. Imagine if
Continue readingRight’s war on women, er girls, reaches new lows with this lovely cartoon
The closer it gets to November, the more emboldened they come. But this poster from far-right blog Protein Wisdom is OK because a woman drew it and it’s satire. Yeah right. Remember when the right was so upset over Playboy’s admittedly sexist accounting of the top conservative women? Not so
Continue readingAlmost one in 10 Albertan men say it’s OK to physically assault a woman
Words fail. On the one hand, some of the responses are cause for optimism — for example, 56 per cent of men say they are more aware of domestic violence issues than they were five years ago, and 91 per cent say they would intervene if they knew someone in
Continue readingCheney chickens out of visit to Toronto
Must be all those mandatory minimum sentences that spooked the skittish Mr. Cheney. Do the crime, do the time must be scary words to a man wanted in much of the world for crimes against humanity. Plus I doubt the recent slaughter of innocent Iraqis at the hand of a US soldier
Continue readingHunter “Where Are the Feminists”? Hates Birth Control, Apparently
Boys ‘n’ girls, remember Hunter who always wonders where the feminists are? Well, apparently, her would be crush on Rush is showing these days as she jumps on his bandwagon, agreeing with him that law student, Sandra Fluke is a “slut” for simply saying that birth control should be covered
Continue readingWhat Rush hath wrought: 16-year-old harassed for being a “slut, a prostitute, a horny piece of trash that is out to sleep with every guy in school”
The fallout from Rush Limbaugh’s attack on Sandra Fluke has more far-reaching consequences than the public humiliation Fluke received at the hands of the radio star and the subsequent withdrawal of advertisers from the blowhard’s show. Caught in the headlines suddenly are the young women of America who have become the new Easy
Continue readingFive advertisers drop Rush Limbaugh after Sandra Fluke slander
After Limbaugh called the woman refused at place at Darrell Issa’s birth control table ”slut” and “prostitute”, the media and the progressive blogosphere and even Republican presidential contenders (save Romney who just couldn’t bring himself to criticize Limbaugh – Bain Capital co-owns Limbaugh’s broadcaster) denounced Limbaugh’s remarks. Now, thanks to social media, five advertisers have quit Limbaugh.
Continue readingGlobe & Mail dips its toes into Robogate
Globe & Mail editorial office The Globe & Mail, that dusty old Miss Havisham of a newspaper, has been notably silent on the Robogate scandal, dancing around it like a wounded Dervish. It has yielded the floor to another Conservative publication, the National Post of all papers, to take the
Continue readingVideo: Stephen Harper caught sneaking out the back way
This is a short video, a little bit silly but still absolutely on the mark. From the folks at Leadnow.ca. Pls sign this petition & share: Election Fraud 33,900+ messages sent in first 24 hours Send quick online automatic robo-letter protesting Harper’s robo-calls. H/T: Nadine Lumley X-posted at Let Freedom Rain.
Continue reading