American-Flavored Crazy: Rick Santorum
With Donald Trump having bowed out of consideration for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, we now have to turn elsewhere for our regular dose of American…
May 2011
Skoonheid (Beauty) wins Queer Palm at 64th Cannes Film Festival
Skoonheid (Beauty), the first Afrikaans film to be screened at the Cannes International Film Festival, won the 2011 Queer Palm award, which recognizes one film for its contributions to lesbian,…
Revisionism: It Ain’t Just For the Holocaust
Any new photos of Paulie, you ask? Take a gander at this one: Why, oh why, do you make this so easy for us Paulie? Now while we might think…
Foreign Diplomats Surrounded by Gunmen in Yemen
Gunmen said to be loyal to Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh have surrounded the Emirates embassy in Sanaa. Inside a group of foreign diplomats have convened awaiting a decision from…
Omar Khadr and the Airport Outrage
As if it wasn't bad enough that two Canadian governments allowed the war criminals at the Pentagon to imprison and torture a Canadian child soldier in a place like Guantanamo.As…
Still here?
Anyone feel touched by his noodly appendages last evening? Us Pagans and Non believers have been having a bit of fun with this one. There are sightings of the "disappeared"…
Actually Stephen, the taxpayers dollars go to the parties they support.
Budget will mean curtains for party funds: minister | iPoliticsStephen Harper is lying to the public, again. He is trying to make you think that you are funding parties you…
Well it’s Sunday and We Still Have no "Details" About the Liberal "Extraordinary Convention"
No wording of the so-called amendments.No solid dates for the so-called amendments. Nada nada enchilada. I'm sure Alf Apps told everyone on the Council of Presidents call the other night…
Just watch him
Not even three weeks into his unfettered prime ministership, and Stephen Harper is already showing us what kind of prime minister he will be -- arrogant, unaccountable, partisan, and shortsighted.And…
Rapture-Minded Morons and the Future of the World
Yesterday’s ‘End of the World’ media circus proves a number of things to me: the end of the world is not coming there are a lot of morons in this…
Sunday morning
Good morning. You might want to turn your volume up a bit lest you miss some tasty licks....
A Broken System
Angelo Perischilli and I share few opinions. But this morning, I find myself heartily agreeing with him. In today's Toronto Star, he writes that Ruth Ellen Brosseau can "take credit…
The world ended yesterday
Or not. Nothing happened. What a shock. No quakes, no Rapture, no nothing. The closest we came were some day-early Victoria Day fireworks in Canada and some American atheist jokesters…
Great Moments in Spin
If there are ever "spin awards", Tim Powers deserves the statue:PARLIAMENT HILL—Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s inflammatory decision to stuff two failed Conservative election candidates back into the Senate on Wednesday…
Is Canada’s Economy Wage-Led?
The parenthetical reference to Canada in my last post prompted several good comments. This post attempts to summarize and address them. Dr. Stockhammer has co-authored a paper with estimates for…
A Message from Jason Cherniak
Yes, Jason and I see eye to eye on this. It's one of the points I, and others, have been expressing and writing about for 3 weeks now. I'll take…
It Turns Out…
.....We Are Really Big In Taiwan!So.....C's Mom L. is over for the weekend. And we got to talking about our Busking Project. She asked me if there are any more…
A Formidable Foe
Susan Delacourt's piece yesterday presents a sobering reality, at least for those of us not supportive of the "Conservative coalition". However, there is no disputing this reality, further emphasized by…
Liberal Renewal:Let us not forget this
Renewal starts on the ground, and if we wish to implement a 308-riding strategy, we need to adopt and implement the recommendations of the Change Commission Report April 2009. One…
The malignant influence of the Kochtopus
Via Montreal Simon and Alison at Creekside, this little gem: Teabaggers, Astroturfers, the Fraser Institute, robocalls directing voters to the wrong places, Harper wanking on about Canada being an "energy…