Great line of the day
Joe Scalzi gets to the heart of the Penn State scandal: ...one of the great stories of science fiction is “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” which was written…
November 2011
Hilarious (or Scary) Anti-EPA Campaign Video
Bette Grande, a North Dakota Republican running for Congress, says she'll "padlock the doors" of America's Environmental Protection Agency. Watch her bizarre campaign video:
best date i’ll ever see in my whole entire life
It's 11.11.11 !!! And I'm posting this at 11:11, of course.10.10.10 was cool, and 12.12.12 will be cool, too. And I love palindromes, so 12.22.21, if I'm around for it,…
He basically explains how he was tricked into joining the war effort…
if what you're reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find…
Brad Wall Light?
I got to know and like Dave McGrane in the Saskatchewan Young New Democrats, but the following assessment misses the mark: McGrane, an assistant professor at St. Thomas More College,…
Is John McCain Turning Progressive – Again?
If you want to know which way the political winds are blowing, watch John McCain. He was noticeably moderate, even a tad progressive, when he first ran against George w.…
Severe Autism Reality: Autistic Cases ‘Autism Experts’ Run From
Kim Oakley and her family are not researchers studying high functioning autism and trying to convince the world that autism is beautiful. They are not ill informed mainstream "journalists" looking…
Global Weirding Settles Into Oklahoma
It's been going on since January - record winds, an earthquake, floods, drought, tornadoes. Call it "global weirding" Oklahoma style."Even for Oklahoma, this is crazy," said Rick Smith, a National…
She hasn’t heard? #nlpoli
“I have yet to hear any substantive argument that contradicts any of the analysis or research or even the process that we’ve used to get us where we are as…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading.- Alice posts the full party spending numbers from May's election. And the story in fact looks to have been near-maximum spending by each of…
Is America Finally Coming to Its Senses?
According to Salon's David Sirota, America is coming to its senses. He attributes it to a recent awareness of just two things - his country's burgeoning wealth gap and its…
Deep Integration Is Not the Way to Go: The Economic Pitfalls of Common Currencies (to Say Nothing about the Cultural Fallout)
Memo to Stephen Harper and others who'd like to integrate the US and Canada: it's not the welfare state that causes problems, it's the inability to manage your economy independently.Today…
11/11/11
In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the…
Outsource This! Boeing and Lockheed Martin war machines ‘full of fake Chinese parts’
> The Telegraph : Thousands of U.S. warplanes, ships and missiles contain fake electronic components from China, leaving them open to malfunction, according to a US Senate committee. In total,…
While we’re remembering…
A year ago today I was pointing to the words of then Veterans Ombudsman Pat Stogran who described Veterans Affairs Canada as "severely broken." Based on this recent interview with…
MOOC Statistics Thus Far
Here's what we have for participation rates in the #Change11 MOOC this far.'Persons' are people who have registered for the course. The gap between persons and subscriptions is the number…
The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Battle of Vimy Ridge Edition)
General Ludwig von Falkenhausen presents “The Week of Suffering” (circa April 2-9, 1917) –>slide 2 Artillery relentless I’d guess about a million shells Somehow can target our artillery, even though…
The landscape exhibition #13
Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
remembrance on the other 364 days
There's only one thing wrong with this cartoon: it shows an actual sticker, rather than a magnet. These folks usually don't "support the troops" enough to glue a piece of…
The NDP’s Trouncing in Saskatchewan Should be a Wake-Up Call
In the recent Saskatchewan provincial election, the NDP took a thrashing. From the Huffington Post:The Saskatchewan NDP suffered one of the most crushing blows in the party's history Monday night.…