Adele – for those who don’t know already
I may be late but 2011 was the year I discovered brilliant young English singer-songwriter Adele Laurie Blue Adkins. Salon.com calls her The one musician we all agree on.
December 2011
Minimizing the horror
Remember how the right-wing had to mock and demonize the 9/11 widows to try to cover the Bush-Cheney malfeasance that lead to 9/11?Now that the Harper Cons have dismantled the…
Young Liberals
One of the great pleasures of running for Vice-President (English) is engaging with Liberals from across many spectrums of location, age and opinion. I am always overwhelmed by the diversity…
Rex Murphy’s Year Ender
CBC’s professional curmudgeon offers up his patented barnacle encrusted summary of the year’s events: If you had hypothetically slept through the entire year like Rip Van Winkle and suddenly awoken…
Bob Rae and "Iffy Questions"
I can’t believe that anyone fell for it when he said he wasn’t going to run, and now its come back pretty definitively in this Globe article: “Now you’re asking…
Molly’sBlog 2011-12-31 15:59:00
RELIGION: PAPAL SINS: Amazingly enough I finished reading two books on a single day. There are two more rather technical books that I am still reading, but probably few would…
Congrats to Sista P
Not a bad way for the year to end, with the election of another woman as leader of her country. So congratulations to new Jamaican prime minister Portia Simpson Miller,…
2011 in 10 @Uranowski tweets
Please follow me on twitter, @Uranowski, if you don’t already. Here are 7 of my favourite/most retweeted tweets of the year: March 6th: “If they are going to insist that…
move out of the way, Orly Taitz ~ there’s a new crazy in town : ‘Mr. Basiago, Mr. Stillings confirm meeting Barack Obama on Mars’
Hmm, upon further reflection, (and a link I just came across) I’m gonna declare them all equally delusional. First, some lunacy from the Mars visitors. According to Mr. Basiago and…
move out of the way, Orly Taitz ~ there’s a new crazy in town : ‘Mr. Basiago, Mr. Stillings confirm meeting Barack Obama on Mars’
Hmm, upon further reflection, (and a link I just came across) I'm gonna declare them all equally delusional. First, some lunacy from the Mars visitors.According to Mr. Basiago and Mr.…
move out of the way, Orly Taitz ~ there’s a new crazy in town : ‘Mr. Basiago, Mr. Stillings confirm meeting Barack Obama on Mars’
Hmm, upon further reflection, (and a link I just came across) I’m gonna declare them all equally delusional. First, some lunacy from the Mars visitors. According to Mr. Basiago and…
Canadian Politics Word(s) of the Year: 2011
Today is the final day for writing/releasing end-of-the-year posts. 2011 featured a federal election and provincial/territorial elections in Manitoba, Ontario, PEI, Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Yukon and the NWT. At the end…
LFR’s half-assed predictions for 2012
Occupy will stay underground and grow its infrastructure and goals. More and more organizations and individuals will pledge allegiance to the movement. The media will interpret this lack of visibility…
happy new year: peace, love, revolution
Happy New Year to everyone in the wmtc community – friends and commenters, lurkers and loyal readers. Thank you all for being here. I wish you health, peace, and joy…
None For The Road
Nation, it’s been awhile. I’ve been pretty busy – it turns out that running for a nomination is every bit as exhausting as I’d imagined. And then multiplied by 10…
The BC Liberal Party’s Further Descent Into ‘American-Style’ Politics
PoliticsOfDestructionism’RUs LINOVille That was then (ie. Dec 23rd, 2011): “I don’t think Canadians welcome American-style politics. And so whether it’s American politicians or American interest groups, they all to American-style…
Can it happen here?
A serious question, not necessarily answered in the affirmative, although I’m leaning heavily that way. Two stories caught my eye this morning. The first was a bitter reminiscence of life…
Mulcair reaches out to NDP’s environmental wing
NDP leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair NDP MP and leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair has staked his leadership bid on the support of the NDP’s remaining environmentalists by pegging ‘sustainable development’ as…
2011 Blog in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was…