A curse for Doug Ford
… with apologies to all of my Christian friends, and Laurence Stern. Yes, I know I recently offered this on Facebook with Stephen Harper’s name inserted, but I’m beginning to…
August 2011
Some Housekeeping
In addition to a new database this blog also features an entirely new design that was cobbled together like Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein. I want to take this time…
Official Relaunch
Consider this the official relaunch of my blog, and in a half-hearted way my re-engagement with politics. That may seem like a fairly empty gesture… but that’s largely because it…
Retiring senior Toronto cop calls #G20 reaction overblown
Toronto News: Retiring deputy chief calls G20 reaction overblown - thestar.comYou know where I'm going with this, so I'll just let thwap and Lorne carry the ball on this one.…
The Wandering Jew
This may seem like an odd name for a blog, or at the very least a dire one so I figure it is probably a good idea to offer some…
Capitalism and You: Riots and Public Unrest
Its Saturday August 13th and the world is burning up in the FLAMES OF UNREST!!!! ….or so the media made us think with the market tumbling and a flurry of…
Reitmeier Attempts to Send Stormfront Posts to the Memory Hole
Missed this initially, but we figured that it wasn't to late to share it with our readers: Now why would Robbie try to have his posts on Stormfront removed? Oh…
Exhuming Kodachromes
And Ektachromes. In an attempt to shed stuff I have purchased a slide/negative scanner and have been spending some time digitizing the tons and tons of little yellow plastic boxes…
Michael Coren Violates CRTC Rules On Sun TV With Racist Remark
I was just reading a comment on Dr. Dawg's Blog that makes reference to a recent appearance by Michael Coren on Brian Lilley's show, Byline. In an interview about the…
Ontario Liberal plan to get people into charities and non-profits
This is a great policy –– charities can never match salaries or benefits of private sector -– but once someone has the "taste" of charities and non-profits, even if they…
"It’s not Blackberries, it’s Black thugs": Michael Coren racializes the London riots
I must admit that I was sceptical when a reader reported this, but there is Michael Coren, in all his ugly racist glory, @3:22. As “Canadian Patriot” (who has my…
Jason Kenney’s Own Staff Abandons Him
There is no comparison between the weight of opinion brought to the debate on the important issue of judicial independence by the Rt. Hon Beverly McLachlin, Canada's top jurist, and…
Wankers of the Week: London Burning
Crappy weekend, everyone! Well. How about those riots in Merry Old England, eh? Looks like London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down…and not just in London, my fair…
Propagandizing in SK
It seems as though the editorial board of Regina’s daily newspaper can’t be bothered to so much as appear to provide balanced coverage of the uranium industry in Saskatchewan. In…
Broken Internets/Killer Teabaggers on Crack
It’s not a truck, it’s a series of tubes. Very fragile glass tubes, and sometimes they break. In the course of doing the so-called “upgrade” they’ve been bragging about for…
The British Riots and the Broken Society
First came the feral phase. The young are animals.They are essentially wild beasts. I use that phrase advisedly, because it seems appropriate to young people bereft of the discipline that…
Hydro Report: Death Knell for BC’s Public Power?
This will be a short blog because the point is simple…and devastating. Mark down August 12, 2011 as the day BC Hydro all but concluded its suicide mission, with the…
Behind the Scenes of Michele Bachmann’s Newsweek’s cover photo shoot
I know I'm having a little too much fun with Michele Bachmann lately but c'mon she's a joke generator. This one's more about Marcus, her ambiguously straight husband. And yes…