This was me today, a level 5 man cold – and I still made it on to co-host Canadia Cast with Kevin, only to be foiled by a few audio issues. It was a fun and freewheeling conversation about trolls, the dangers of social media, arguing on Twitter, bullies, SNC-Lavalin.
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Politics and its Discontents: A Sendup That Cuts To The Bone
Marie at A Puff of Absurdity recently posted on the dysfunction, debasement and corrosiveness that social media has wrought in human relationships. The following seems like an apt complement to her post: Recommend this Post
Continue readingScripturient: Show me the documents!
The trolls and troglodytes on social media are whinging again about allegedly missing documents that relate to the 2012 sale of 50% of Collus. They want you to think there was a conspiracy by the utility staff not to release crucial documents. There wasn’t. Period. No matter how many times
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Thoughts on #EarthHour
If you celebrate or commit to Earth Hour, dimming/turning off your lights and parring back your electricity use between 8:30pm and 9:30pm, good for you – participation is fun.However, let’s be honest that Earth Hour is just about the minimal you can do…
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Thoughts on #EarthHour
If you celebrate or commit to Earth Hour, dimming/turning off your lights and parring back your electricity use between 8:30pm and 9:30pm, good for you – participation is fun.However, let’s be honest that Earth Hour is just about the minimal you can do…
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Thoughts on #EarthHour
If you celebrate or commit to Earth Hour, dimming/turning off your lights and parring back your electricity use between 8:30pm and 9:30pm, good for you – participation is fun. However, let’s be honest that Earth Hour is just about the minimal you can do, and most don’t even do it.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: How to Spot an Ecology Troll
Start with an oil spill apologist/minimizer. Work with the twisted logic that since all ships and oil tankers don’t crash all the time, any concern over one that might [and our government’s pathetic incompetence in prevention and disaster-aversion] is eco-hysteria. Pay any attention to and RT anything Ayn Rand. Then
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Hurricane Sandy and the Twitter Troll
On Tuesday night, as New Yorkers struggled to cope with the fury of Hurricane Sandy.A Twitter account with the handle ComfortablySmug tried to cause even more fear.By sending out a series of alarming false messages.Read more ยป
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Attack Ads – Sometimes In Politics It’s All About Hate
Attack ads to the left of me…Jokers to the right! So, Warren Kinsella (a blogger that anyone who reads this blog will know is someone I enjoy very much) recently wrote an article for The Sun trying to understand why the federal Conservatives haven’t lobbed any attack ads at honeymooning
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: A Taste of Things to Come?
So, my friend over at www.nuncscio.com remarked to me a couple of weeks back that Canadian politics tends to be about 5-10 years behind that of our American cousins. He, being an intelligent man, would have put many caveats on that statement if he had known that I was going to
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Beware the Troll Under the Bridge
So, I spend a fair amount of time reading various news sites, both well known and otherwise, and am generally greatful to Our Glorious Ruler the Internet for all that he/she bestows. But there is one phenomenon so repugnant, so totally contrary to all things good and right and nice
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