Donald Trump has a winsome spokesmodel show off all the creature comforts of his luxurious new jet… Isn’t it nice to know that the U.S. Department of Transportation uses taxpayer money to provide interest-free loans for the purchase of corporate … Continue reading →
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daveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: the katz group proves that all the money in the world can buy some pretty bad political advice.
In their effort to secure more than $225 million in public funding for their proposed Katz Downtown Arena, local billionaire Daryl Katz‘s company, the Katz Group, has proven that even billionaires can buy bad political advice. The CBC revealed last week that the Katz Group has been contacting Edmonton’s Progressive Conservative MLAs asking them to […]
Continue readinggay persons of color: Republican Party donors back New York marriage equality
“If they know us, they don’t vote against us.” Harvey MilkOf course, there will always be exceptions to that assertion made by Mr. Milk way back in the 1970s, but for the most part, I think it’s true that if someone personally knows a gay, lesbian, b…
Continue readingArt Threat: The sordid tale of the Trump golf course – A Review of You’ve Been Trumped
A new documentary takes aim at Donald Trump’s Scottish golf course adventure.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Blowhard Donald Trump Finally Gets His Presidential Comeupetance
I’m sure that I’m not the only one who takes special pleasure in seeing blowhards cut down to size. (Indeed, aren’t most of us hoping for that with Monday’s election results?) Stateside, I can think of no bigger waste of resources and airtime than Dona…
Continue readingArt Threat: Hot Docs 19 begins – Toronto festival brings another round of quality documentary
A first look at some promising political offerings from this year’s Hot Docs program.
Continue readingbastard.logic: Rima Fakih’s Trojan Bikini
by matttbastard Sometimes it takes well over a thousand words to highlight the absurdity of the viral xenophobia that periodically sweeps over the more Islamophobic denziens of Outer Wingnuttia. This time it would (at first) appear that a mere picture will suffice: Of course, as Echidne … Continue reading →