Tough on pot
When the Conservatives talk about 'tough on crime', this is what they really mean.
June 2011
On the Vancouver riots
Wow things got ugly here last night, and I don’t mean downtown. Critical thinking gave way to mass condemnation online as an arms race of criticism took over any actual…
Jack Layton May Have Sold Out for Nothing
I mentioned yesterday being surprised that every single NDP voted in favour of bombing the hell out of Libya.Layton performed his usual posturing, saying yes drop those 1000 bombs, but…
Bobby Kennedy Jr. Talks "The Last Mountain" With Director Bill Haney
The-Last-Mountain-Movie-Poster.jpg The companies involved in mountaintop removal mining (MTR) are beginning to get much-needed exposure in the national media. For years, this issue has been rele...
The TRUTH About The Economy That Conservative Voters Are Too Stupid To Comprehend
With most of the capital in the economy having flowed to the top few percentage points of the population, the working middle class is simply not able to generate the…
Why Anthony Weiner resigned?
Source: The Huffington Post.
Jennifer Wells dissects Conrad Black’s chakras
In a nifty little article on Conrad Black, The Star almost redeems itself from the disgraceful taunts and distortions the last few weeks in its Sports pages. It's a nifty…
Who Let the Crazies Out?
That's not just in reference to the Vancouver riots, either, though those who took part in those riots - especially this couple - deserve the label of "crazy" in some…
Congratulations Elizabeth May on the First Green Party Parliamentary Climb Down!
She says one thing one day, and backs down from it the next. The Green Party of Canada is growing up folks. You see it is doing all the things…
3861…Anthony Weiner: Why?
The first why is, why did you send a picture of your, as you call it, package to anyone?Second question is, why are you resigning?Man up, Bill Clinton it and…
Puritanism and the reversal of opposites: dissolution of extremes and the coming end of an age
The West – or rather, the North West corner of this small planet – is by tradition and by psychology, puritanical in bent, still, even though this tradition is recent,…
3860…Riots: A Canuckistanian Tradition
Love the ever predictable riots last night.At least when they have riots in the States it is usually coz someone got wrongfully shot, wrongfully convicted, wrongfully something something.Not in Our…
Layton swears allegiance to Marx, vows to crush capitalism: just kidding…
I think before any journalist sits down in front of their computer to write something, they must ask themselves the following question: will what I am about to write constructively…
Dumb As Paint
Today's Dumb as Paint award goes out to Brock Anton for helping Vancouver Police by confessing to assaulting a police officer and destruction of property. Brock, be sure to ask…
What happened to my city last night?
At The Bay (click to enlarge) As I surveyed the damage on Robson and Granville this morning, walking past an ashen-faced premier and even more shell-shocked mayor answering the press…
The rot in Wisconsin continues
As a followup to the my earlier post about a Wisconsin Federal Judge declaring that the legislation passed by Governor Walker and his sultry crew of union bashing tea baggers…
Preston Manning and the Vancouver riots
Yes, of course, it is a big stretch to suggest that Preston Manning, for the former head of the Reform Party had anything to do with the rioting in Vancouver…
QP: Friday on a Thursday
The House treated today like a Friday to allow the NDP to head to Vancouver for its party convention by holding question period early. But it wasn’t a real Friday…
You can save eight lives
Yesterday the McGuinty government unveiled a new online registry for organ donation. The response was so massive that it crashed the site! I just registered – it only took about…