New research in Australia has emerged that has found that the vast majority of women in Australia think of their vaginas as unattractive. And that’s putting it lightly. In a survey of nearly 800 Australian women (read: large, credible sample size), nearly half of all respondents said they had considered or would consider cosmetic genital […]
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Rob 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 readingThe Progressive Right: Open Letter to Canoe.ca
To Whom it May Concern,
The problem I have is, while perusing your website, I was reading an article about a high school hostage situation, and the largest graphic on the page is that of an adult female, modeling t-shirts with jokes regarding therapy,…
Continue readingFive of Five: Holy Biased Poll
I realize website polls are primarily for entertainment and shouldn’t be taken seriously, especially not on a hyper-conservative radio site.But this poll really stuck out as having a totally meaningless, poorly worded and biased set of choices.There is…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: News and Analyses from BASICS Community News Service
BASICS is newspaper put out by some revolutionaries in Toronto, with a popular and working class orientation. Would definitely say it’s worth checking out… material from the latest issue is going up online, here’s a list of some of the pieces:
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National Gender Inequality Rankings – We Should Be Doing Better
The World Economic Forum has released its Global Gender Gap Report, in which it ranks countries according to gender equality measures. Canada came in 20th. 20th. This is even behind a country in which 40% of men admit to having raped a woman (South Africa). According to the WEF: [The] Global Gender Gap Report assesses […]
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Did PBS censor Tina Fey?
Tina Fey, winner of the 2010 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, had her speech edited during the PBS broadcast of the show.
Critics claim it’s due to the controversial nature of the speech where she addresses the rise of Sarah Palin to prominence; P…
Continue readingWhy Angelina’s Film is Likely to Cause Offense
Last week, celebrity gossip news made the mainstream with the announcement that the Bosnian government was revoking permission for Angelina Jolie’s new film project. Originally sold to the government as a “love story” about “a couple that meets on the eve of the war”, controversy has erupted with rumours that the film is actually about […]
Continue readingBake at 350 Degrees ’til Explosion Occurs . . . .
Michael Moore gives the definitive review of Bob Woodward’s new obama administration novel.Excerpts:In fact, after you read Woodward’s book, you’ll split a gut every time you hear a politician or a government teacher talk about “civilian control over t…
Continue readingPop The Stack: You Can Tweet Us on Twitter, Where the Heck Else Could I Tweet You?
I’ve got a nagging pet peeve about how the media are explaining all the new ways of communicating with them. I’ve heard CBC and CTV doing this but I’m sure everyone does. Maybe this happens with all new forms of communication but its time to recognize the pattern and learn from it. It is completely redundant […]
The National Post speaks to me
I found this amusing. Here’s a screen capture from the National Post page in FB:
Continue readingA. Picazo: Ezra Levant vs Reality – A Prelude To Fox News North
The battle between supporters and opponents of Sun TV News – the Fox News style channel headed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former communications director Kory Teneycke – reached new heights when members of the ‘Fox News North’ team took issue with a growing online petition urging the CRTC to reject Quebecor’s (QMI) request to
Continue readingOn secrecy and Wikileaks.
IntroductionSo, as everyone and their brother’s roommate knows, Wikileaks managed to get their hands on another chunk of material that the powers-that-be would rather the rest of us never saw. This time, of course, it was a collection of documents rela…
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 →
Rob Maguire: Build your email list with download cards
If you’re looking for a creative way to build your email list, you might want to give download cards a try.
Continue readingRunesmith's Canadian Content: Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber
Dan Leger of the Chronicle-Herald ran a thoughtful piece yesterday with the rather cumbersome title of “The insularity of Internet opinion factions”.As you might have guessed, this has only encouraged all the usual insular internet factions to spew for…
Continue readingA. Picazo: Levant, Coulter Protect Free Speech
The rules laid out for attendees of the Coulter event in Calgary demonstrate who’s ‘free speech’ Ezra Levant, Ann Coulter, and event sponsors International Free Press Society are seeking to defend…their own. Levant and Coulter both hide behind the guise of ‘free speech’ to justify their slander, bigotry, and blatant
Continue readingbastard.logic: The Last Post I Will Ever Write About Ann Coulter (Except for Cynical SEO Purposes)
by matttbastard (Photo: Rockinon2009, Flickr) Well, well, well (h/t Sabina Becker): First, contrary to what Coulter seems to suggest in a brief phone interview with Macleans.ca scribe Colby Cosh, it was not the police who “shut it down.” I spoke with Ottawa Police Services … Continue reading →
A. Picazo: Fomented Outrage And Phoney Censorship
Ezra Levant, the self described expert on free speech in Canada, is Outraged! over the cancelation of Ann Coulter‘s scheduled Tuesday appearance at the University of Ottawa. Levant’s been busy on twitter, Facebook, TV and radio, desperately trying to sell the public his version of events and paint himself and Coulter
Continue readingA. Picazo: Stephen Harper Takes Your Questions!
Pre-screened questions, pre-scripted answers, and a pre-taped interview. That, in essence, is as authentic as Stephen Harper gets. The ‘much’ anticipated You Tube question and answer session with the Prime Minister was supposed to allow Harper to avoid the (alleged) filter of traditional media, so instead it was fed to
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