Canadian Blog Awards
Yahoo! It’s Canadian Blog Award time again, and I wasn’t aware BDBO has been nominated. Thank you to whoever took the time to nominate this blog.:^) You can find BDBO…
November 2011
How to have sex in an MRI scanner
A Dutch scientist from the University of Groningen enlists two friends to help him find out (a) whether sex in an MRI machine is feasible, and (b) what can be…
Late night
<p>&amp;lt;a href=”http://firstratepeople.bandcamp.com/track/someone-else-can-make-a-work-of-art”&amp;gt;Someone Else Can Make A Work Of Art by First Rate People&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;</p> There is a free mini-album download by the Canadian group, First Rate People at this link. Their…
Mowat Centre report finds current EI system riddled with “systemic inequities”
Employment Insurance available through Service Canada Making It Work, the latest report from the Mowat Centre at the University of Toronto, has taken aim at Canada’s system of Employment Insurance…
So what’s left?
i have been writing. Just not an awful lot here. And, sadly, not an awful lot on either of the two novels i have stuffed in the metaphorical back pocket.…
Audio: The United Church’s prayer vigil at Occupy Toronto
Further to last night’s post. Pretty hard to get decent video at night with an inexpensive camera, so I stripped out the audio. I’m not especially religious, but for whatever…
Coming soon to You: Your very own Liberal Travelling Circus-Primary!
Take the time to read this very carefully (extract from the Liberal renewal documents, Background Paper): The concept of the selection of a new leader of a political party through…
Bullet lists are good. But don’t believe me – look at this
Such a simple thing, really, a bullet list. A visual cue in the text to indicate an organized collection of symmetrically arranged bits of information. Ideas organized like merchandise on…
Haroon Moghul goes to TheCall
Religious Dispatches: Jesus, Carpet Bomb My Heart: An Uncover Muslim in Detroit But there is a more inescapable truth about Engle’s “Dearborn Awakening.” He chose a speaker who lied, obfuscated,…
Why I still read Huffington Post (US version): genius headlines
Like this: It pisses me off so much. Here we have the greatest wave ever in favour of the progressive movement in the form of Occupy and nobody is getting…
Robert Reich @ UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley Professor (and former US Labor Secretary) Robert Reich delivering the Mario Savio memorial lecture last night.
Nathan Cullen Interview #ndpldr
I will be interviewing NDP Leadership candidate Nathan Cullen this Friday. If you have any questions you would like me to ask, feel free to post them on the blog…
Nathan Cullen Interview #ndpldr
I will be interviewing NDP Leadership candidate Nathan Cullen this Friday. If you have any questions you would like me to ask, feel free to post them on the blog…
Education… Who’s Education ?
Of course education is assimilative – in the societies of the colonizers. But education in indigenous cultures is liberating. The choice is yours. Pick the kind of education you want…
A visit with Ole Anthony, The Trinity Foundation
Wade Burleson got to sit down and visit with Anthony Ole of The Trinity Foundation – a man who has spent much of his life attempting to expose corruption in…
One of these things is much like another. And that might be inconvenient.
Big news from south of the border. Alleged White House shooter Oscar Ortega Hernandez was arrested today in Pennsylvania. DC media reports that Ortega Hernandez used a cheap but powerful…
French Socialists Do It Better Than Canadian Liberals (so far)
Steve at Far and Wide has an excellent post today that captures the excitement an open primary could bring to the Liberal leadership race. And I agree with Steve and…
From the “Jokes that write themselves” file
A newspaper headline goes horribly wrong: Unless it’s a story about Tubesock-Or-Bust at long last meeting his idol Sarah Palin? (Image swiped shamelessly from Preliator pro Causa)
Dalton McGuinty Is Jesus
..or, at least, not Bob Rae. But I believe him when he says he won’t run. Which so far gives us for the Liberal Leadership race an allegedly reluctant Bob…