What Fresh Hell Is This?
BangingEveryLeverInAFluorescentHazeVilleNormally, I would rather poke myself in the eyes with sharp sticks than go there. But today I had to. Go there, I mean. And I did not buy a…
November 2011
In the words of Elizabeth May.
Mr. Speaker, from 1913 to 1956, a period of over 40 years, time limits on debates were used 10 times. In the last 40 days, a time limit has been…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2011-11-05 22:32:00
Harper gives the Princess a big sloppy kiss at 1:10. !!
Our own mind being narrow and contracted, we cannot extend our conception to the variety and extent of nature, but imagine that she is as much bounded in her operations as we are in our speculation.
David HumeA frightening insight. All we see is all we can comprehend but ... reality may well be far greater than that.
Elizabeth May blocked from speaking on Remembrance Day
I'm sure there is a 'reason' but... . Even if she is technically an independent she does head a Party and she should have been allowed to speak:Elizabeth May (From…
Wankers of the Week: Remember, remember…
Crappy weekend, everyone! And Happy Bonfire Night to all you Brits and Guy Fawkes fans out there. Oh gawd, it’s November…or if you’re a guy trying to grow a ‘stache…
Appointment of Next Auditor General Betrays Conservatives’ Contempt of Canada’s Bilingualism
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Angelo Persichilli as his director of communications, he showed the Conservatives contempt of Quebec and the French language. The Toronto native can’t speak French.…
Lemon of a battery
So the first battery I got with my laptop lasted six years, more than twice the number of anticipated charge cycles. The one I got to replace it in February…
Watching Hockey on TV
Just saw the "Stopthesteamroller.com" commercial; the sad last swing of a side going down. Oh well. Farmers are about to lose their wheat board, just as Quebecers are losing the…
Watching Hockey on TV
Just saw the "Stopthesteamroller.com" commercial; the sad last swing of a side going down. Oh well. Farmers are about to lose their wheat board, just as Quebecers are losing the…
Sun Media whines about expenses of Harper-appointed CBC boss
Hey Fox News wannabes, perhaps you would be better suited to complaining about the CBC if you didn't go after Stephen Harper-appointed Hubert Lacroix. He's only doing what the Conservatives…
Commonwealth Business Council Picks In-house Denier To Chair Climate Forum
cbc.jpg IF you were going to have a serious high-level discussion about, say, improving science teaching in schools, then who would you invite to chair the meeting? How about an…
Scott Walker gets mic checked!
From the estimable Brad Blog, I find this video from a speech by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker at a Chicago engagement both amusing and important. We need more of this.…
Cherry picking: military school pulls award to HNIC talking head
Don Cherry’s statement paints himself as the victim, of course. But the reality is not so kind to the puffed up bigot of Hockey Night in Canada. Expect Conservatives to…
Canadian Governments Lack Political Courage?
On Friday, Chantal Hebert published a provocative column in the Toronto Star arguing that Canadian politicians are populists who lack “political courage” and, in the wake of the last courageous…
In Over Their Heads
Bill Maher’s rebuttal to the right-wing talking point that President Obama is a failure because he’s “in over his head”… You can watch the entire show at this site.
Mistrusted neighbour
“Salmon farming along the British Columbia coast has expanded with encouragement from both Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and the B.C. provincial government. The Canadian federal fisheries department…
Has the game changed or merely the players?
Recently, I was amused by a certain radio news-talk host angrily sputtering in response to callers' claims that he was partial and passive in political coverage. He replied that, in…
Matt Schaub or Matt Cassel?
Schaub against the Browns which rank #3 against QBs. He is without top wide-out Andre Johnson again. But he has been quite consistent without him. Cassel is up against a…