Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – No, there’s no doubt that the Harper Cons’ position on greenhouse gas emissions has been both amoral in its disregard for climate change,…
2011
All Is Quiet In "White Nationalist" Land: Part II
Blood & Honour has finally decided to comment on the arrests made last Thursday in Vancouver. Oh, not the Blood & Honour faction to which the three individuals arrested are…
Report Partially Blames Federal Government For Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Explosion
Deepwater-Horizon-oil-rig-006.jpg Perhaps one of the most honest assessments of last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion reveals the numerous failures of both industry and the federal government in the worst…
Hitchens: a contrarian view
Nobody should have to silently watch someone with this history * be converted into some sort of universally beloved literary saint. * Or as Murray writes: A strange and extremely…
An example of how things can get outta hand…
… on the Interweb thingy… An innocent post by a fellow Ottawa blogger – and pretty cool person – has caused a storm of sentences! A cacophony of curses! A…
Putrage
A serendipitous faute de frappe and the eagle eye of reader deBeauxOs have combined to add a word—I hope—to the English lexicon. Pu·trage /ˈpyo͞o,trij/ noun. 1) A state of advanced…
The Oil Sands and the Banana War
Oh. My. Monkey. It looks like Chiquita Banana is giving Canada’s oil sands the cold shoulder. The Canadian oil sands industry is facing an unlikely adversary in Chiquita Brands International,…
Oldie But a Goodie
Reading “White House Ghosts”, and a great chunk from Eisenhower: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those…
Mostly competent government
Perhaps the best place to start with this Globe and Mail article is half a dozen paragraphs in, where a part of the process followed when someone is to be…
Real World Autism Functioning Levels and Conor’s Hospital Adventure
Dr.Everett Chalmers Hospital, Fredericton, New Brunswick One of the many controversies that mark discussions of autism disorders is the question of functioning levels. Some high functioning persons with autism and…
Bradley Manning and the Horror of Haditha
What perfect timing. Just as the U.S. ends its war in Iraq, not with a bang but a whimper. Bye bye Big Lie. Bye bye Shock and Awe. Bye bye…
Harper Regime Doles Out Jobs to Former Candidates, Minister: Sixth Estate Patronage List Expanded to 785 Names
I’ve completed some more updates to my ongoing Patronage List, which now stands at 788 names. The Patronage List is a list of apparent Conservative insiders and donors appointed to…
The Hitchens Method #nlpoli #cdnpoli
There are plenty of people out there who pat themselves on the back for telling it like it is, for calling it as they see it. You know they do…
The alternative Christopher Hitchens
Both left and right blogospheres have been full of tears and praise for Christopher Hitchens since his passing. And that’s the way it should be. He was a brilliant intellectual,…
The Offensive Meaning of Christmas
Having read an interesting article in the Globe and Mail, Canadian schools struggle with what to do about Christmas, I ask myself the same question every December when we are…
The Latest German Ferry Mystery Has Been Solved…
NoDutyCalls SecretsAndAnchorTiesVille The identification of the Canadian company apparently attempting to keep their duty-waived, German-built ferry a mediablack-cloaked super secret appears to have been solved. By the newly-minted dynamic maritime…
A Free and Open Leadership Campaign
I’ve been speaking to Liberals across Canada — some face to face, some by telephone, some by e-mail. One issue they are all united on is the need for a…
Lowe’s blow against decency
Today American citizens opposed to escalating Islamophobia will be picketing various outlets of Lowe’s, the American hardware giant. Earlier this month, acting under miniscule pressure from a Krazy Kristian Konservative…