4026…This Is How Entourage Is Gonna End
I didn't get a sneak preview so this is merely an educated guess.But this is how I see the dramedy ending its 8 year run this Sunday.E marries the pregnant…
September 2011
Daily levitation – Yowayowa camera woman diary
I'm not sure why but I'm addicted to this site. It's simple really - a Japanese woman posts a photo every few days catching her leaping mid-air. The photos are…
4025…Paul Dewar Wants To Be King
Of the Dippers.And, as my dear friend Rachel Decoste, who alerted me to this story in today's Ottawa Citizen, says "...you've got to be kidding me.!?"When I clicked on the…
4024…Barnstorm 12
It seems like only yesterday that Barnstorm 11 happened but, alas, it was a year ago.This year CKCU's tic's music festival in Finch, Ontario, about an hour from Ottawa, Cornwall…
Musical interlude
Big Sugar - Nicotina (She's All That)
To Supporters of "Progressive" Parties: You Need Movements
Part of the unprecedented outpouring of emotion after the recent death of federal NDP leader Jack Layton was about the loss of a good man who had done lots of…
About that Chalk River Fiasco…
Remember the thoroughly abusive Stephen Harper knifing at Linda Keen over the nuke facility at Chalk River? Well, now there’s some interesting stuff written about the Chalk River reactor. This…
Friday night
A good one from recent weeks and maybe a little bit appropriate given election mode which has set in this week! Have a good night.
Quotable: Adam Smith said WHAT?
“The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to …the…
Ignoranti, quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est
No wind is favorable to someone who does not know where they are sailing (Seneca). That's a rather loose translation -- I'll take the blame or credit for it --…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Colombia fights back with style
“In Locombia, even we puppets are called terrorists!” This was taken at a demonstration in Bogotá, where at least 80,000 students and teachers protested against government cutbacks to health and…
Neighbourhood garage sale tomorrow – Old Ottawa South
Come by our place on Aylmer Ave tomorrow during the Old Ottawa South Garage Sale. No, it's not the Glebe, but there's lots of people giving away lots of stuff.
What the Liberals Claimed was Impossible…The NDP will Achieve with the Greatest of Ease
That's right folks. A 6.5 month leadership race to pick a successor to the most successful leader in NDP history. It's a shame Liberals weren't capable of replacing the leader…
Jimbo Flaherty and the Con Depression
Holey Moley. I see the Con gnome Jimbo Flaherty has gone from being the king of his tiny castle, to being the moron on the mole hill.Unemployment is rising, the…
Looking Backward in the Year 2011
by matttbastard Der Spiegel runs down W’s “tragic legacy” in the long, long, looooong decade of U.S. decline that followed 9/11: America was trapped in Iraq for years, where a…
Friday night
I can imagine the drummer and bass player thinking to themselves "I wonder if I'll ever get another gig quite like this again?" This is Oscar Peterson and Count Basie…
Friday night despair
Or, time to go to bed early. The world is too much with me, and it’s an insane, evil, hallucinatory one, like a bad acid trip. Item: American parents pimp…
Premier Brad Wall Insists Saskatchewan Is BOOMING! But StatsCan Says Something Different ….
"In Saskatchewan, employment declined by 3,000 in August. The unemployment rate fell 0.4 percentage points to 4.5%, as fewer people participated in the labour market. Employment levels in the province…
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The immigrant tax credit and why I’m a Liberal
When did people become so ignorant? Over the last week I’ve overheard a few people expressing concern that Dalton McGuinty would help foreigners and not “us.” You know, they’d say,…