Just a pay-to-play way of life
Tomgram: Lawrence Weschler, The Great American Shakedown, November 1, 2011: "In the U.S., corruption is seldom “corruption.” ... 15 of top “bundlers,” who give their own money and solicit that…
November 2011
The Shit Kebab and the Democratic Deficit
Uh oh. I see that Eurozone leaders don't like George Papandreou's idea for a shit kebab referendum.The leaders of Germany and France told Greece on Wednesday it would not receive…
Gertrude Stein Was Wrong.
SometimesASayingIsSomethingLessVille"There is no there there..."Gertrude Stein, Speaking of Oakland California in the '30'sC. and I used to live on the fringes of Oakland. And as a whiter-than-whitebread boy who grew…
Tory recipe for happiness: save money and gain self esteem by scrapping the gun registry!
Why should I have to register my flying car? I’m a law-abiding driver! Civilian variants of the $100-million-plus F-35, without working radios, may not be exactly as illustrated. Below, Edmonton…
US, Israel and Canada’s response to Palestine’s UNESCO membership
When Palestine overwhelmingly got approved to be a member state in UNESCO, a long standing congressional trigger was activated which entirely defunds the US contribution to UNESCO (about a fifth…
Poppycock!
It’s no big deal to drop a loonie in the Legion collection box and pin a poppy on your lapel as a good many people do around this time of…
For The Good People At Occupy Montreal
I promised a friend who has been sleeping and cooking for the good and earnest people at Occupy Montreal that I’d post this rather brilliant speech by the American Journalist…
For The Good People At Occupy Montreal
I promised a friend who has been sleeping and cooking for the good and earnest people at Occupy Montreal that I'd post this rather brilliant speech by the American Journalist…
For The Good People At Occupy Montreal
I promised a friend who has been sleeping and cooking for the good and earnest people at Occupy Montreal that I’d post this rather brilliant speech by the American Journalist…
The Cry Hollywood (and how it may be crucial for Faytene’s future)
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Faytene Grasseschi is taking her Cry rallies on the road to Hollywood (move over Bing and Bob )–and the event may…
Yard Work Flash Mob! November 13
You know those flash mobs - where a bunch of folks show up in a public place and do something outrageous - like singing, dancing, or guerilla theatre - to…
On uneven playing fields
Nancy is understandably concerned about different rules applying to the NDP's leadership race in 2012 than the Libs' in 2013. But it's worth pointing out that there are gaps going…
Late night
R.E.M. called it quits but they have a new song on a forthcoming retrospective album thingy. Accompanying video above is the effect of a camera on Kirsten Dunst for three…
Credit where credit is due and darts where they are deserved
It's nice to see the NDP taking a principled stand on the life saving long gun registry. Well, most of them anyway. Who does Nathan Cullen think he's playing to…
Writing web content for union members: is it public voice or intimate voice?
Most of the how-to manuals on web writing focus on writing in public voice. They presume that the words will be the product of many pairs of eyes, the writer…
Late Bloomers: Jose Saramago
I’ve always thought of Jose Saramago as a prolific, accomplished and successful literary writer, someone elevated, and not even enviable because he deserved it all. So I was astonished and…
Carleton University’s shameless president
Roseann Runte is at it again. It wasn’t enough to ban an Israeli Apartheid Week poster from the campus and threaten Palestinian and pro-Palestinian students with expulsion; or to fire…
Occupy Canada movement remains unscathed following phoney attack by MACLEAN’S
The right-wing Canadian media establishment unleashed one of its loudest barking dogs this week as MACLEAN’S Andrew Coyne tried to tear a strip off the Occupy Wall Street movement in…
Brad Wall Says That Whatever Stephen Harper Asks Him To Pay For The Omnibus Crime Bill – He Will Obey
"PRINCE ALBERT — Returning to the city where he made a recent campaign promise to crack down on violent offenders, Saskatchewan Party Leader Brad Wall expressed support for Ottawa’s tough…