David Olive (@TheGrtRecession), Team Ford, and that whole ‘deserve’ thing again
With this blog post at the Star, David Olive goes on a bit of a roll, getting in some pretty good zingers at Mayor Stupid and Brother Stupider.One can't argue…
July 2011
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Shelved cats.
"I make no pretence about the stuff we used to do": Former NOTW editor Piers Morgan admits to phone hacking
Pretty damning stuff. Morgan never outright states he tapped phones but does not deny it, stating he's not proud of what he did and let happen. Listen.
Crime rates and government spending
So crime rates continue to decline. Not just nuisance crimes and property crimes but also crimes where people get hurt or worse. And it's been going this way for nigh…
3950…Say It Ain’t So Brett
Favre.Or say it is so.It is rumoured and denied and confirmed and alluded that the man with the faxable penis, number 4 in your program but number 1 in your…
Fern Hill Unleashes More Online Hellfire
Way to go, Fern! As you might remember, Fern Hill, the political blogger at DAMMIT JANET! was the instigator of what Chris Selley dubbed the “online hellfire” which was unleashed…
Abuse of prisoner in Ottawa police custody
In less than a year four Ottawa criminal cases have ended badly for the prosecution. The four cases have remarkable and disturbing similarities. In each case a cell block video…
Dougy Ford, Perhaps If You Actually Set Foot In a Library, You Might Learn Who Margaret Atwood Is
Oh, poor, long suffering Dougy Ford, city councillor, side kick to his brother Mayor Rob “Boss Hogg” Fordzilla. Always the bridesmaid, but not the mayor. He seems to be bitching…
Holman Hits FOI Jackpot on Christy’s Cozy Contracts…CorpMedia Listens.
AllTheNewNewsThat'sFittestFreelancerVilleHere's Sean's lede, not in PublicEye, but instead in the Globe:The B.C. government office running the province’s pro-HST campaign secretly doled out contracts to two Liberal-connected companies and a former…
Petermann iceberg visible from Labrador – and from space
The Petermann Ice Island, a Manhattan-sized iceberg that broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland last August, has since traveled almost 4,800 kilometres (3,000 miles) and is currently bumping off…
Housekeeping…
Yes, it does seem I’ve fallen off the blogging map, doesn’t it? No fear, though, as I’m sure once council gets back into full force, and we’re thrown into the…
World Net Daily: Norwegian kids killed by the Left
No, I mean literally. This Birther rag, for which Islamophobe Kathy Shaidle writes, and which frequent commenter “knygathin_zhaum” cites uncritically, claims the kids on the island were murdered by—why, the…
Let’s see… how to start… um… *ahem*… okay… It was a dark & stormy night…
…and fern hill was kicking ass all over the place! W00t! DJ has the links that tell the entire tawdry tale. And while we’re giving props to those who deserve,…
Conservative Minister John Baird Has Paintings By Quebec Artist Removed And Replaced With Portraits of The Queen Of England!
I think the Conservative government sits up late into the night just thinking up ways to be idiots. Case in point ....."Foreign service staff and art lovers are grumbling about…
Another Canadian muzzled by Harper
Franke James, you are not alone. It's not just the arts that get the Harper thug treatment. Science, the other most hated discipline of Conservatives, is also subject to censorship…
Don’t Feed the Trolls
Recently I posted a video thank you to NPR and its supporters on NPR's Facebook Page. The thank you was for their positive reaction to an earlier video from NPR's…
The limits of Godwin’s Law
Godwin's law, simply stated, is that any internet debate will eventually decay into one side making a reference to Nazis, the Hitler, or the Holocaust, and at that point loses…
Deep thought
The use of "library group" as a putdown says far more about the speaker than about the target.
BREAKING: Tim DeChristopher Sentenced To Two Years In Prison
TimDeChristopher.png At 3:00 pm MST today, the end of a very long and emotional saga came to fruition as the gavel banged down on the judge’s desk in a federal…
Harper’s fake 2008 "apology" to Aboriginals
…worthless. Self-serving rubbish. Ask Sisters in Spirit, who first brought the disappearance of hundreds of Aboriginal women to national attention. Harper’s response? Scuttle them. Meanwhile, his Department of Justice lawyers…