Jack Layton just finished telling Craig Oliver that he thought what young Brigitte DePape did was wrong. He basically said that while he and the rest of ‘em are striving for that all polite decorum, she was disrespectful. Like Carolynn Bennett and Dizzy Miss Lizzy, ol’ Jack basically said that while he is . . . → Read More: Jack Layton, Just Like the Rest of ‘em
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Awww! Jason Kenney! My Heart Is Breaking! Somebody Get Him a Fainting Couch!
Poor Jason Kenney! By extension, poor, poor Harpercons! My heart bleeds for you! Now we understand why Stevie Spiteful wants to have elected senators. It appears to be all about his dear precious Alberta, a province that sends six senators to the red chamber to represent them. Jason Kenney’s digestive tract is twisted . . . → Read More: Awww! Jason Kenney! My Heart Is Breaking! Somebody Get Him a Fainting Couch!
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Saving the World from Terrorist Breastfeeding Toddlers [UPDATED]
An Atlanta, Georgia suburb is fighting one of the most pressing causes of our era — children who breastfeed past twenty-four months. Because breastfeeding after the age of two will damage human society beyond repair: On Monday night, Forest Park passed a public indecency ordinance to prevent public nudity. Previously, the city only had a […]
The Happy Wanderer: Birthers Put To Rest!
I don’t think that it should have taken Obama to realize a birth certificate in order to prove that he was actually born in the U.S, but a new poll showed that now only 3 percent believe Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. I hope now we can concentrate on th…
Continue readingThe Harper Government In A Nutshell
Just in case it has not yet sunk in how incompetent are Harper and his Harpies in matters of governance and responsible budgetary spending:
1- They spent some $2 millions last year in a narcissistic exercise of monitoring what the media says about the…
Continue readingHappy Holidays …
… and all that jazz.
Enjoy yourselves with family and friends. Party hard, but responsibly, eh?
In the meantime, a little food for thought, to which I say "hear, hear!":
The happy heathens
By Chris Selley
When the 2001 census-takers descended upon London, Ont., they found 83,680 people who described their religious beliefs as agnostic, atheist, humanist, non-existent or some “other resp…
Continue readingPlutonium to Travel St. Lawrence Seaway?
Oh boy, ohboy, ohboy! That’s some hot commodity! The Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, Radioactive Waste Management Associates (Bellows Falls, Vermont), Beyond Nuclear (Takoma Park, Maryland), and the Citizens for Alternatives to …
Continue readingComing to Canada Soon ? ? ? ?
Welcome to Crazytown . . . .H/T: drfRecommend this Post at Progressive Bloggers
Continue readingAnd So It Begins . . . .
The organized lynching of truth-telling by way of FoxNoise, of course.From The Guardian this morning:A Fox News contributor and former state department adviser has accused WikiLeaks of conducting “political warfare against the US” and called for those …
Continue readingCanadian Coup de RCMP . . . .
*Updated link due to the Lady Alison’s astute discovery. (Thanks, Alison!) Apparently the story disappeared off the web ’til it reappeared this morning at the updated link to the Montreal Gazette below . . . .As “drf” exclaimed when he pointed this* …
Continue readingWanna 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 reading"Praise the Lord" and Pass the Bullets . . . .
Jeebuz, these people are really whacked.Bring your gun to church to protect yourself from what, fer cryin’ out loud? Disciple gangs? Meth lab zealots?Get a grip down there, ya’ll . . . .Recommend this Post at Progressive Bloggers
Continue readingbastard.logic: B’nai Brith Canada Hearts Free Speech (Except When It Doesn’t.)
by matttbastard Free speech for ye: B’nai Brith Canada condemns free speech double standard on campus as Coulter talk is cancelled in Ottawa TORONTO, March 24, 2010 – B’nai Brith Canada has condemned the free speech double standard that exists … Continue reading →
bastard.logic: I don’t give a toss about Tiger Woods, but this is kinda sorta WIN
by matttbastard Alt-pr0n mogul Joanna Angel wins @ Twitter today: thank god i work in an industry where i do not have to make embarrassing apologies and quit my job for being a slut. Oh, snap! Recommend this post at Progressive … Continue reading →
bastard.logic: Obligatory ‘John Mayer is a Dick’ Post
by matttbastard
Stay classy, you racist, sexist douche piñata.
Photo: Jared Polin
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bastard.logic: Irony is Dead, Redux
by matttbastard Education reformers were out in full force at this past Sunday’s Perry-Palin rally in Texas (I truly heart Moran Country). (Also, TEH NUGE!!!1one Ain’t no party like a Tea Party partaaaay.) h/t Adam Serwer Photo: Bryan Fotographer, Houston Press Recommend this … Continue reading →
bastard.logic: Choosy Moms Choose Teleprompter
by matttbastard Much like wealth redistribution, she was for it before she was against it. (Read Katrina vanden Heuvel on ‘Palinland’, and then try your goddamndest to not give Palin’s latest scorchingly stupid [yet unfortunately all-too-effective] PR offensive any more … Continue reading →
redjenny: This must be a joke… please tell me this is a joke
Nature’s laws of shopping: Men hunt, women gather University of Michigan psychologist Daniel Kruger has found that how we shop has an awful lot to do with how we once found our food. Men hunt. Women gather. Conjugal chaos ensues.[…]As a scientist, he refused to do the sensible thing –
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Nature’s laws of shopping: Men hunt, women gather University of Michigan psychologist Daniel Kruger has found that how we shop has an awful lot to do with how we once found our food. Men hunt. Women gather. Conjugal chaos ensues.[…]As a scientist, he refused to do the sensible thing –
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Nature’s laws of shopping: Men hunt, women gather
University of Michigan psychologist Daniel Kruger has found that how we shop has an awful lot to do with how we once found our food. Men hunt. Women gather. Conjugal chaos ensues.
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As a scientist, he refused to do the sensible thing – shrug his shoulders. He wanted to know the reason. He combed over studies of aboriginal tribes and did a battery of tests on student volunteers. The results will be published in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology.Kruger found that our habits haven’t changed. Our environment and our goals have.
In prehistory, women gathered or foraged for food. This kept them close to home, performing a daily, intensive and social activity. A good memory, a keen eye and a lot of patience when choosing help make a good gatherer.
Men hunted for meat. This was an intermittent, asocial activity that earned them prestige only through the biggest catches. Short bursts of energy were followed by long periods of sitting around waiting for women to bring in the harvest.
There are so many things wrong with this article, I don’t even know where to begin.
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