Signs of the Apocalypse. . . .
"We're just showing the rich people that we can do what we want. . ." -Rioter in Croydon
August 2011
Dr. Dawg calls for a Posse
A canadian blogger was recently successfully sued for libel. You can read all about the case here. Now you know it had to be bad when you see what has…
Shorter Michael Spence
The policy elites, in the developed world, are seized with a deficit mania that crowds out the reality of an unemployment crisis. This mania threatens the world's people with years…
Civilization Isn’t That Civilized
Those of you who follow this blog will know that my family and I spent last week canoeing in the Woodland Caribou Provincial Park in northern Ontario’s boreal forest. It…
Pompous and wrong as always
Shorter Conrad Black: A gentleman such as oneself is apt to miss the comforts of the fairer sex when unjustly incarcerated by one's inferiors and one's good lady wife declines…
Inherit The Wind
Forty two years ago, I was preparing to teach my first classes. I had spent the summer at the University of North Carolina, studying John Dewey, Jerome Bruner, Carl Rogers…
The Liberals are UP!
A new poll shows that the Conservatives are at 36.2, The Liberals at 27.0% and the NDP at 26.8%. We are now just over a month past the last election…
Clubs and Societies at Mount Allison University
20 Tips in 20 Days for first-year students: #2 – Choose a club that matches your interests Second in this 20-part video series is my friend Alex Dalton (fifth-year Honours…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 9, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Bribery Got Bin Laden - http://goo.gl/j7r49Wage gap growing between male, female lawyers - Canadian Lawyer Magazine - http://goo.gl/FyEGUUS Supreme Court…
Of course they support us to have massive colourful orgiastic ecstatic street fetes…
when we do not laugh and gyrate and forget... we remember and rage and resist and their streets burn... if what you're reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you,…
Ask General Kang: Is it a correction? Please tell me it’s a correction! Should I sell?
Yep, there’s nothing trickier to manipulate than a system based on fear and greed. You humans should consider changing your approach to markets. Back on my home planet, I changed…
DOMA to break up seven-year marriage and 19-year relationship
This is why the American Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) needs to be repealed. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have denied immigration benefits to a bi-national married gay couple in…
Does London have an NHL team?
The editorials about London and the ongoing riots reflect, as always, the writers' predisposition. The riots are a sign of moral decay, failed government cutbacks, racism, British national character, global…
Yes, i think it is…
from scission... THE FUTURE IS TOTTENHAM? As the USA rapidly continues its rapid descent today, we turn instead to England which went down a whiles back and is a hint…
Shaidle’s Hubby Still Getting Sued
Arnie Lemaire, of Imaginit Technologies, is still in trouble with Richard Warman:Latest – Warman v. Arnie Lemaire (aka Blazingcatfur and husband of Kathy Shaidle). In December of 2010, this libel…
Carbon taxes may be the new debt reducers
There is an op-ed in the Globe today by Todd Hirsch, a Calgary-based senior economist at a financial firm out there: "Debt is the new carbon." His premise is essentially…
Changing the game
Politics, Don Jamieson once said, is no place for fools. But you don’t have to be a fool to expect that people act with basic human decency. Definitely not acting…
Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Piss
Drought-Stricken Texas Town faces choice between conserving water or drinking own waste products, chooses to drink own waste products. The American spirit is strong in these ones. Not that I…
Acadie Nouvelle gratuit via le site de la bibliothèque
Des photos en noire et blanc, en 2011, c'est plutôt triste. Surtout sur un iPad!Ceci-dit, lorsqu'on lie quelques chose sur l'app Kobo en mode "nuit",et qu'il y a une photo…