Jack Layton on This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Jack gets Marg’d. And other choice moments. Lots of Canadian politicians have been great sports about the merciless satire this CBC fake-news show dishes out on their (usually) all-too-deserving heads,…
August 2011
HST Referendum Shuffle….Elections BC Will Neither Confirm Nor Deny…
ForAConfederacyYouNeedAFewDuncesVille ....When The Flipping Results Will Be Announced Seriously. It's Wednesday, and the results are supposed to be released Thursday, but now they are saying it may be Friday. Or.…
The dirty south…sooo, sooo many movies about denial…
i'm cross-posting these from my okcupid journal. heh. :) i don't think these kinds of posts are helping me meet any "nice" men. ;) hehehehe Disgusting happy deep south racist…
Jack
What a huge loss. I had heard the news early Monday morning from a loved one and then my blackberry started flooding with notes from various political types of the…
Liberals built this!
www.liberalsbuiltthis.ca Had a great time this weekend taking part in the province wide Ontario Young Liberal blitz showing the great investments that the Ontario Liberal Party has made in families…
How to protect your books from zombies – Post-industrial bookcase will also shelter your loved ones from terrorist attacks and GMO crop blight
From artist Alex Féthière: “Don’t think Sinkhold is a bookcase because of its shape and contents. Owing to its stainless steel construction from a series of sinks, it holds many…
G’mornin’…
i like the song. just not sure i need to see that many white men running around completely amok in the world. sort of scary. :) if what you're reading…
Put It On the Kids’ Tab – A Cautionary Tale
We got used to it after WWII, governments borrowing money to be repaid by taxpayers in the future. In an era of foreseeable, sustained growth that wasn't so bad. The…
PM heads to NunAntvut gold mine
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/08/24/north-harper-tour.html
3990…I Hate When This Happens
ABC reports that Phillip Seaton went into Louisville Jewish Hospital for a circumsion and came out sans le penis. Dr. John Patterson found inflammation on Mr. Seaton's little head back…
Austria, 1912
Though they outsold the proto-fascist jazz stylings of The Pillage People four-to-one, the Über-Musik Boys never quite managed to make the big time. Even though they started the whole Lederhosen…
Google+ Paul Krugman is fake. Unemployed conservative kid "Campaign Fix" makes a mockery of US right wing.
Thank you to an anonymous grad student idiot from the right with a blog called Campaign Fix for making the rightosphere look like the idiots they are. This unemployed anonymous…
Jack’s Dream
This song comes from Jacks words in his letter to Canadians.
The worst idea I’ve heard all year
Graeme Hamilton: Quebec seeks special status for select journalists Quebec's Culture Minister, Christine St-Pierre, announced this week that she is pushing forward with a plan to create "a new model…
A musical tribute to Jack Layton
“Jack’s Dream”, by Ontario NDP candidate James Gordon (Guelph). Jack’s famous last letter gets a country sound.
NEW WEBSITE!
I’ve been MIA for several weeks while working on my new website! I am so excited about it because I’ve wanted to have something like this for ages–more interactive and…
State Broadcaster my A**. . . .
I have never watched SunTV except for a few moments as I was channel flipping. I was recently in Toronto and SunTV was in the lower channels at the hotel…
"Dishonest acts" does not include negligence
Dagago v. Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company, 2011 ONSC 4951 deals with a solicitor’s negligence matter. The lawyer was refused coverage by the Insurer. They did so on the basis of…
I Owe Jack Layton $20,000
I've been a bit swamped with work in recent days and in my own world, so I was shocked to hear about the passing of Jack Layton. I must admit…