Peter Pinocchio
Filed under: caricature, illustration Tagged: caricature, Conservatives, humour, Lies, parliament, Peter Mackay, politics
December 2011
Friday night
Tonight’s opener is an instrumental by Kenny Vaughan called Shimmy. Welcome to another Friday night. This is the Robben Ford Trio with a cover of Willie Dixon’s Spoonful. They speed…
Party like it’s 1812
Can you feel the 1812 commemorative vibe, people? It’s coming, get ready. A Conservative MP, Gord Brown, on his riding’s 1812 re-enactment plans, somewhat lacking in specificity: Here’s a description…
Impeach Mayor Rob Ford "Quimby"
So I'm kinda dumb sometimes and I was wondering if it's possible to impeach a mayor to get them out of office. So of course I did a Google search…
Impeach Mayor Rob Ford "Quimby"
So I’m kinda dumb sometimes and I was wondering if it’s possible to impeach a mayor to get them out of office. So of course I did a Google search…
What will you tell us next?
More sleaze reports: Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? Federal Judge Pimp-Slaps the SEC Over Citigroup Settlement Congressional perks: Lawmakers’ most surprising benefits Super-PACs and Dark Money: ProPublica’s…
OWS gives Luntz The Fear
Scary Occupy Wall Street has given infamous GOP strategist Frank Luntz The Fear: The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to…
Canada’s Mandate At Durban Climate Talks Clear: Negotiate On Behalf Of Tar Sands, Not Canadians’ Future
A perspective on Day 5 of the Durban climate negotiations, from Ani, a member of the Canadian Youth Delegation representing Manitoba at the Durban climate conference. Ani works as a…
Old Talking Points Die Hard: "Climate Change Is Beneficial" Edition
Climate-Change.jpg If you follow the cycle of anti-climate change talking points, you’ll notice a pattern that repeats itself every few years. In between spurts of outright denial, the anti-science crowd…
My favourite kitty
Filed under: art, cartoon, digital, drawing Tagged: Cat, hair, shed
Occupy Christmas
OCCUPY CHRISTMAS! (Santa photo originally from from Tumbleweed:-) and released under Creative Commons license) Santa’s been abusing the 99% elves at his North Pole cold-shop. Lt. Pike comes to the…
Eddie Long divorce – on again, off again
Friday morning; I’m divorcing my husband. Court papers filed. Vanessa Long has been married to Eddie Long, head of the Atlanta New Birth Missionary Baptist Church since 1990, it is…
Sharing urban roads
Photo Courtesy of FlightAware.com
Smeared But Still Fighting, Cornell’s Tony Ingraffea Debunks Gas Industry Myths
ingraffea.jpg Cornell University Professors Robert Howarth and Anthony Ingraffea made waves in April 2011 when they unveiled what is now known simply as the "Cornell Study." Published in a peer-reviewed…
Rob Ford Continues To Make An Ass of Himself
While the title of this post might strike many as redundant, even I, despite having borne witness to a great deal of asinine behaviour over the years, was surprised to…
One Bank to Rule them All
Centrist and leftist economists have been spending a lot of column inches wondering what has possessed the European central bank top brass lately. Even some mainstream to right-wing economists seem…
Aide: Prime Minister’s hairpiece made in China
OTTAWA – A former aide to Prime Minister Cowboy Steve said today that the leader’s hairpiece was made in China. The PMO staffer, who left the government in July, also…
Caught between two worlds
With all the negative news coming out of Attawapiskat these days it’s easy to simply assign blame to a) the government; b) the reserve; c) the Canadian public, or d)…
Tories Make Play For Anti-Xmas Vote
…cave to radical Xmasists in HOC. So close. If they had banned celebrating they would have earned my vote forever. Meanwhile, its time once again for the annual Liberal War…
Setting aside a default
Roth v. Bourollias, 2011 ONCA 760, released today, deals with setting aside a default. In general on a motion to set aside a default, the court will consider: (a) whether…