Pam Geller’s faulty memory-hole
Now you see it, now you don’t. Alert reader beluga2 notes that the scrofulous owner of Atlas Shrugged has been doing a little further self-editing since her excision of a…
2011
The Failure of Political Leadership – Part 2
The other day I wrote a brief post called The Failure of Political Leadership, inspired by what is quickly becoming a national embarrassment for the City of Toronto in its…
A Week Without Fossil Fuels
Woodland Caribou Provincial Park is a wilderness park located between Red Lake, Ontario and the Manitoba border. As Ontario’s 5th largest provincial park, covering 1.2 million acres (that’s 486,235 hectares)…
Paul Krugman Versus Bob Rae, Or …
How I Accidentally Deliberated The Problem Of Ellipses.On Friday, the Jurist over at Accidental Deliberations had an interesting post. Titled "Juxtaposition", it simply presented two quotes and a brief comment.…
Clemens vs. Clemens
Jason Clemens, who hangs his hat at several right-wing think-tanks (the Fraser, Pacific Research and Macdonald-Laurier Institutes), lauds Canadian fiscal conservatism in today’s Wall Street Journal: Canada’s government, for example,…
Gay Teens More Likely To Be Homeless
One in four GLBT high school students in Massachusetts are classified as homeless, according to a new study from the Children’s Hospital Boston, published in the American Journal of Public…
Sliding a sheet of paper, NDP version
The New Democrats announced a couple of policy planks last week for the general election campaign. Well, sort of announced. The party’s news release says that leader Lorraine Michael announced…
Canada’s government has experienced shrinkage?
At least according to the Wall Street Journal. “Why Canada is beating America” is a concept I imagine is rarely pondered south of the border, primarily because in that…
Now, I Think I Understand Why Obama Ran as A Democrat
Yep, Orwell’s Bastard has it right. I will go further in guessing that President Obama is not just a wimpocrat, he’s actually a Rethuglican who only became a wimpocrat, probably…
Krugman: The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling – NYTimes.com
The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling - NYTimes.comOK, can we do a couple of things for starters?1. Lose the illusion that Obama's got any balls, or that he's in any…
Enforced relaxation
It's amazing how long I can spend sitting on a dock staring out at a lake. I suspect Irene will find this a bit disconcerting, but I could almost get…
Credit rating agencies as courts of international finance
As I am writing this, President Obama announced a deal to avoid default on US government debt. If lawyers think in terms of courts, then what would be the legal…
The purpose of blawgs
More than a year ago I wrote a post entitled “How lawyers think.” Its basic idea is that a lawyer’s job is to maximize legal protection of his client’s rights.…
The Summer of Love 2011
Five years after your humble e-scribbler first wrote about it, the world pretty much accepts the notion that the governing Conservatives time their communications to coincide with polling done by…
Heather Mallick Has a Message for Tim Hudak…
You can run but you can't hide.Hudak thinks it’s sufficient to promise he won’t reopen the debate on abortion rights, although such a debate is not occurring in Ontario and…
Is Walking Autism Therapy? No, Just Fun for Conor and Dad
In the space of two days Conor and I went on several walks together. Nothing makes me feel better than going for a good walk, preferably along a trail or…
Imagine…
…a world where Democrats didn’t always fold like cheap card tables at a trailer park bingo hall.
How to Give Toronto a Touch of Class Again
Well now we know that when he's not flipping the bird at people, or belching loudly, Rob Ford can shake his massive butt in the street. As long as it…