Source: Detroit Free Press. All I can say is, he put forward an issue many of us don’t really want to talk about on the agenda.
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Enormous Thriving Plants: Twitter Tuesday: Doubling-down on Santorum’s "Man-on-dog" slippery slope.
The blogger previously known as ALL-CAPS SUZANNE FORTIN (but who you cannot refer to by name now, lest she throw a twitter tantrum over it) has once again unwittingly illustrated the conservative tendency to reject reason and logic as relevant to morals. Echoing the Catholic Church’s ridiculous efforts to blame
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Twitter Tuesday: Doubling-down on Santorum’s "Man-on-dog" slippery slope.
The blogger previously known as ALL-CAPS SUZANNE FORTIN (but who you cannot refer to by name now, lest she throw a twitter tantrum over it) has once again unwittingly illustrated the conservative tendency to reject reason and logic as relevant to morals. Echoing the Catholic Church’s ridiculous efforts to blame
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Twitter Tuesday: Doubling-down on Santorum’s "Man-on-dog" slippery slope.
The blogger previously known as ALL-CAPS SUZANNE FORTIN (but who you cannot refer to by name now, lest she throw a twitter tantrum over it) has once again unwittingly illustrated the conservative tendency to reject reason and logic as relevant to moral…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: When is a scholarship a "forgiveable loan" (or vice versa)?
A very interesting class action lawsuit has been launched here in The Hammer. It involves students of Redeemer University College and their parents who claim they were ripped off by an enticing “forgiveable loan” scheme to offset the costs of the t…
Continue readingOn election 41.
It really is amazing how difficult it is to drag oneself back into longer writing after a significant time away.Anyway, I just want to run with an idea regarding the recent Canadian federal election that’s not being well-discussed (or discussed at all,…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Splitsville for Ahnold, Shriver
Divorce is never a simple matter. Especially when it involves Arnold Schwarzenegger and his soon to be ex wife Maria Shriver. It is just possible if the truth above his love child came out during the 2003 recall, he might have never been electe…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Double contempt, cheap shot
Technical issues have kept me off this forum for a few days .. so I’m going to comment on a couple of things at once — the double contempt finding by Speaker Peter Milliken yesterday, and the Montréal cheap shot.I wrote before about the unfunded mand…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Breaking Through (the bs of questionable campaigning)
Courting the “ethnic vote” is a tradition in any democracy. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to do it. The Cons sending out an action plan on government, not party, stationery — to the NDs no less — is the wrong w…
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: British Ethics: A Dark Comedy
North Sea Oil Drilling by crawfish head Yesterday, January 6th 2011, the UK Parliamentary committee appointed to look into whether the government should enact a moratorium on deep-water drilling in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico-BP oil disaster, has ruled out the need for a halt to new projects
Continue readingRob Maguire: Debating art and ethics in the National Post
I was recently invited to participate in an installment of the National Post’s Culture Club. Described as a “Boy George-free effort to bring the water cooler experience online,” the project gathers arts and entertainment critics to discuss topical cultural issues. In a bid to encourage debate about art and ethics, OCAD recently invited artist Adel […]
Continue readingbastard.logic: Bruyea, Veterans Affairs, and Canadian Democracy: Time to Go “Batsh!t Crazy”
by matttbastard Tuesday’s revelation that Sean Bruyea, a vocal critic of Veterans Affairs had his private medical records deliberately compromised by bureacrats in a brazen attempt to discredit his legitimate, extensive complaints about systemic deficiencies within the department has struck a … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: Obligatory WFT McChrystal?! Post
by matttbastard Cole drops an Apocalypse Now reference, while The Artist Formerly Known as Tacitus thinks shitcanning is imperative if the republic is to survive the impact of McChrystal’s insta-infamous still-unpublished Rolling Stone interview [h/t Ben Smith]. Perhaps. Laura Rozen usually has sound instincts and excellent sources: One early … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: Unintended Consequences, Redux
by matttbastard (Photo: Paul Keller, Flickr) Jane Mayer on the sudden prominence of ex-W speechwriter (and current Hiatt-approved pro-torture propagandist*) Marc Thiessen and why those who don’t pop wood for enhanced interrogation [sic] should be wary: The publication of “Courting Disaster” suggests that Obama’s avowed … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: Canadian Libel Reform, Meet Economic Reality
by matttbastard So, you think that recent SCOC ruling will help fight the chilling effects of Canada’s draconian libel laws? Think again, says Ryerson journ prof Jeffrey Dvorkin: While editors are hailing the ruling as a breakthrough for more aggressive … Continue reading →
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