Stolen land garden, spring/summer 2011 version…
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…
2011
This Disparity Is Criminal
Gravy boat vs. rubber dinghy: comparing executive salaries at B.C. and Washington state ferry corps. – Victoria’s Secrets Filed under: BCLiberals, Income Inequality
Murdochs in the dock – highlights
Highlights from the Murdoch family's and Rebekah Brooks' testimony today in Britain. Complete with foreboding music which seems quite appropriate and not ginned up, actually.The leaders knew nothing, people let…
Your Processed Food Is Made From Wood
Several years ago, I read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. It's a classic piece of American naturalism published in 1906, that exposed the horrible conditions of life for immigrant workers…
This faery man made me shriek with gales of scandalous laughter at pride…
as my daughter would say if she ever heard him speak - he's got toilet water for a mouth. but then again, so do i. ;)i think he saw a…
3939…You Are No Harry Truman
Rupert Murdoch.Mr. Murdoch, of the discredited scandal riden News Corp., home of the late News Of The World, says it ain't my fault, I'm the boss.Harry Truman, President of the…
Shorter
News flash -- Neanderthals interbred with early humans:Conservatives explained at last!
Stephen Harper: The booming business in Canada
Who says Harper is not creating jobs. Here is a proof:"Staffing numbers have risen from 14,663 in 2005-06 to 20,408 full-time equivalents in 2011-12, according to Reports on Plans and…
Students Get Lobby Group Material From Chris de Freitas in Climate 101 Lectures
chris-de-freitas.jpg New Zealand-based academic and climate sceptic Dr Chris de Freitas has been caught using material from US lobby groups in lectures to first year university Geography students...
Be a commenter
Susan Delacourt points out some fascinating research on voter turnout - with the key finding being that citizens are more likely to turn out when prompted to think in terms…
“Time to Reduce Exposure to Europe”
CBC National News reconvened their “Bottom Line” economics panel (including yours truly) last night to discuss the twin debt crises (Europe and America) that are currently roiling financial markets. Here’s…
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?
Ahem. Mood music, maestros: Thank you, fellas, that was…uh…lovely. Okay. Here goes. I saw this comment piece, by someone hilariously named Ally Fogg, in the Grauniad last night. It was…
Click Clunk — you’ll never have a bath again
Alltop doesn’t see no need for bathing.
Halalt Nation’s win protects Chemainus River
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Last week (on July 13th), Madame Justice Wedge of the BC Supreme Court side...
Tim Uppal’s dangerous rhetoric
Populist rhetoric on Senate reform is nothing new, but this Maclean’s interview with Tim Uppal, the newly appointed Minister of State for Democratic Reform – and the man Harper has…
National FU Day
Dr. Dawg posts about the latest outrage connected to the SIU "investigation" of the G20 police riot -- commenter Blawg makes a modest proposal: Ever since G20 (and on top…
Once More, The SIU Cannot Fulfill Its Mandate
In what I can only construe as inept or complicit leadership at the top, the Toronto Police Service, thanks to massive obstructionism amongst the rank and file, has once again…
Media Madness & Politics
Getting out of the media mess created by our mainstream monopolies will be a real challenge. But we have to try.
Rupert Murdoch: Shave every day and you’ll always look keen!
Today's super amazing DRAMA! A protester attacks Rupert Murdoch with a plate of.........Shhi--shhhhhhhhhhaving cream. Rupert's wife, JUMPS up to save him from the pile of Shhhi---aaaaaaaaaving cream! You really cannot…
Nelson Mandela: A leader extraordinaire
“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”MandelaIt was recently Nelson Mandela’s ninety-third birthday. We live today in an era marked by…