2011
Have a non-oppressive Canada Day while acknowledging the country’s past as a colonialist enterprise built upon a stolen continent and our tremendous potential for social change exhale
As the parties rage on in the apartments across the street and the improv fireworks pop and boom seemingly right outside my sleeping child's window, I must confess my ambivalence…
Festive Left Friday Blogging Too: Who’s yer president?
Ahem. What was I saying again about him staying at the helm, no matter what? Here’s Chavecito, in Cuba, convening a meeting on Wednesday with his cabinet ministers. And no,…
Socialism, Conservative Style
Lemon socialism that is. It is a wonderful brand of socialism wherein profits are private and losses are nationalized. It is also called "bend over taxpayers" in certain circles.
happy canada day.
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Knowledge Transfer
I'm so much in a "not writing" mode these days it pains me to put metaphorical pen to paper to author these words. Maybe I'll be more interested in writing…
Strauss-Kahn Is Released as Case Teeters
http://bit.ly/l7cP7d It is remarkable how many media reports that Strauss-Kahn was widely known to be a dangerous sexual predator have rapidly been deleted from the web. In any event, it…
Canada is still a British colony after all, judging by our reverence for the Royals
Prince William and Kate Middleton If I was a King or a Queen in this age of democracy, I would have to work really hard on staying relevant and…
Saturday Photo: Protecting Produce
As we head over to the house early these mornings to see what's happening, we've been going past the community garden at the corner of Henri-Julien and Maguire even before…
The Cause of Colony Collapse for Bees?
This story’s dated (Dec 2010), but it’s a reminder that there seems to be something more at hand than just a simple ‘mystery’ about why we’re getting what’s called ‘Colony…
Friday night
Some Canadiana this week. Happy Canada Day to all!
Friday night blues blogging
Happy Canada Day. Here's Roy Rogers with a performance of Robert Johnson's Terraplane Blues that he gave as Artist in Residence at Mendicino College....
More Wind in Clouds again
A few more Wind in Clouds paintings up at my Etsy shop today. Filed under: art Tagged: clouds, paintings, wind
Great day for Nortel
Not for everybody though: Nortel Networks Corp. has auctioned off its remaining patents to a "rock star" group of technology companies in the biggest patent sale in history, ending a…
Happy Canada Day!
Not only does Canada Day start in Newfoundland ahead of everywhere else, but in at least one other statistically-proven department, it appears the rest of the country has some catching…
Juxtaposition
Stephen Harper describes his party's view of the type of environment needed for any industry to plan for the future and create jobs:“Protecting and creating jobs and ensuring economic growth…
Nuke News RoundUp
It's so much more than just Fukushima.America may have dodged a couple of nuke bullets recently. Wildfires still blaze around the nuke weapons lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico where…