Open primaries and the entrenchment of problems
It seems that during the big Liberal telephone town hall on Sunday, interim leader Bob Rae was talking about the possibility of moving the party toward implementing a kind of…
November 2011
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the NDP: a Forum
Here's an invitation that may be just what you wanted!You would like to know more about the history of the NDP and its record as a force for change in…
Anglophone Thoughts on Unilingual Judges and National Unity
I’m probably the last person in the country to weigh in on the Harper regime’s English-only Supreme Court judges and Auditor-General. But since nobody I’ve read has yet said the…
Remember those they left behind
From the Globe and Mail, Sergeant Ed Wadleigh reminds Canadians to think of those the fallen left behind: But if I could ask one thing of all Canadians for Remembrance…
Pathological Commitment to the Ideology of Austerity Brings Only Economic Stagnation
The curse of austerity - thestar.com This is a very insightful analysis of our current situation. Here's a bit of a gloss on it: Neither the private sector nor consummer…
Herman Cain Hat Quotes
Impact of sexual harassment revelations.Read more quotes here.
Pulpit And Politics: The Book
With the ascension of the federal Conservative Party, there have been two important attempts made to measure the influence that religious voters--especially those associated with The Religious Right--wield within the…
Landscapes IV book just arrived
Fedex and the printer were busy. The book collecting the 20 images from this series just arrived. Same terms as the cat book, if you want one. I’ll put up…
Finding Freedom in Handcuffs
That is the title of Chris Hedges' latest column at truthdig.org, written after his arrest for sitting on the sidewalk in front of Goldman Sachs in New York. It is…
Why the The Leadership Needs the Power to Appoint Candidates
Evil IncarnateOf all the proposals I've heard floating around so far to change how democracy is done within the Liberal Party, the question of taking away a leader's power to…
Mark Ruffalo On Opposing Keystone XL Pipeline: I Look At My Kids and I Say I Can’t Betray Them
I’m looking out the window of my home office today, rejoicing at the sprinkling of snow on the ground. Yesterday rain fell outside, while a confused fly that should have…
Huffpost’s Psychometer and Psychopaths
Harper fell off the meter as usual. I think Ann Coulter and Herman Cain made the Batshit Insane level just above Harper.Read details here.
Garry Queale Says Video of Bus Driver Threatening Autistic Man Is "Inconclusive"
If you have yet to see the video of an OC Transpo bus driver yelling at and threatening an autistic man named Matthew Taronno, you need to see it. It's…
Wedge
The hiring of a uni-lingual English speaker has nothing to do about qualifications. Like everything else with this government, it is about throwing meat to the base and practicing wedge…
Wedge
The hiring of a uni-lingual English speaker has nothing to do about qualifications. Like everything else with this government, it is about throwing meat to the base and practicing wedge…
Wedge
The hiring of a uni-lingual English speaker has nothing to do about qualifications. Like everything else with this government, it is about throwing meat to the base and practicing wedge…
Wedge
The hiring of a uni-lingual English speaker has nothing to do about qualifications. Like everything else with this government, it is about throwing meat to the base and practicing wedge…
All You Really Need to Know About Herman Cain
Herman Cain sees the Virgin Mary on a tortilla: He has won over some voters . . . by telling them that, when he was suffering from colon cancer, he…
USA Can be 100% Powered by Geothermal Energy
Here at Things Are Good we like geothermal energy and countries that use it. The USA could be on the list in the future! Researchers from SMU that have received…
Asking for Drugs
In the Emergency Department, part of a nurse’s job in discharging patients is to figure out if they are good to go home, because in part it’s good nursing practice,…