I have a little gadget on my blog that tells me what people are googling when they find my blog. I usually get things like “$7 daycare montreal” and “what’s the best hospital to give birth at in montreal.” Today I checked it out and discovered that someone had found
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The Progressive Right: RCMP Comment Fail
Northern News Service Online, March of the Pig:
Const. Todd Scaplen with the Yellowknife RCMP said his detachment received a call about a pig wandering by the Ingraham Trail on April 13.
“Someone called and said they saw it on the highway,” Scaplen s…
Continue readingEclecticLip: Well, this one’s an oldie… pomegranate mania
[originally written July 28. Posted Nov 18.]
While stuck, iPodless, in a near-interminable supermarket lineup the other week, I swallowed my dignity and perused the celebrity magazines near the cash register. And you know what? They’re actually pretty good! While I’m veering into fiction, the fashionista in line behind me complimented me on my Vibram Five […]
EclecticLip: How Libertarians brought America big religion and bigger lawsuits…
(originally written Nov 2; posted Nov 16)
It looks like the Democrats are going to get clobbered in next week’s tomorrow’s today’s US elections. Economic malaise tends to do this to governing parties, which is one reason currency devaluation is the policy-du-jour: if country A can make its currency cheaper, it becomes more competitive and can […]
Wanna do a pole trick ? ? ? ?
This article from the local paper in our former homeland is too good to pass up. Here in it’s entirety because as “drf” says, there’s too many good lines to single out just a few*:Bikini-clad strippers protest church in rural Ohio August 27, 2010 By J…
Continue readingRunesmith's Canadian Content: Credential FAIL
Part of me really hopes that this turns out to be a hoax, but I have a sinking feeling that it’s legit:
A billion bucks buys this?
A blogTO reader sent us this photo of his G20 security pass the other day, which reveals that world leaders congregat…
Continue readingRunesmith's Canadian Content: But seriously folks…
This week has been one hell of a ride. But now that things have settled down and my fifteen minutes of fame is coming to an end, I have a chance to pause and reflect on the issue that sparked all this: the outrageous, growing bill for the G8 and G20 …
Continue readingRunesmith's Canadian Content: If I Had a Billion Dollars – The Video!
You asked for it, you got it: the musical stylings of Jennifer Smith, Iain Smith and Lesley Stankaitis with “If I Had a Billion Dollars”.
Enjoy.
UPDATE – Welcome, Toronto Star readers! Oh, and National Newswatch too. Hello there!
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: Man empowers women by encouraging them to pose for nude photos
I think a preface is in order here. On my blog post “Men as feminist leaders?” there was discussion about whether or not the event Femquake was still empowering for women with the knowledge that it was created by a man. Some of the people who commented feel that a
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: Man empowers women by encouraging them to pose for nude photos
I think a preface is in order here. On my blog post “Men as feminist leaders?” there was discussion about whether or not the event Femquake was still empowering for women with the knowledge that it was created by a man. Some of the people who commente…
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: Man empowers women by encouraging them to pose for nude photos
I think a preface is in order here. On my blog post “Men as feminist leaders?” there was discussion about whether or not the event Femquake was still empowering for women with the knowledge that it was created by a man. Some of the people who commented feel that a
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Baphomet offered GG job
Baphomet Lord of the Abyss, past patron of Templar’s , aka the Sabbatic Goat commented today on rumors that he has been offered the position of Governor General . “I’m gratified by the offer, it’s great when your work gets noticed in the big leagues…
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Stephen Harper’s New National Anthem
Looking into O Canada’s history I’ve found that the song has had several vastly different variations before it was finally set as the one we know with the National Anthem act in 1980, so I guess it’s not too shocking or offensive that Harper wants to m…
Continue readingPop The Stack: Canada 2.0 – The Satirical Masses
You gotta love Canada. We are a humble people but we are also a deeply funny and self-effacing people. The latest political trend involves a deep fried ring of onion, a Prime Minister and the spicy dipping sauce of Facebook protest. The aforementioned onion ring, a very tasty looking one I must say, recently became […]
firebrand: Merry Christmas!
Here’s a rather delightful communist Christmas carol from the comrades at rathergood.com
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