Of Rioters,Police And Social Media
I've had all day to digest the events in Vancouver last night,my first knee jerk reaction was how dare those idiots riot over a hockey game when they should have…
2011
On the Canucks Riot, Protest, and Division
I was saddened and disappointed to watch Vancouver burn last night. Disappointed because the Canucks played so poorly and lost a game that they didn’t deserve to win, saddened to…
On Riots & Anarchists: the Media’s Reactionary Propaganda
Good afternoon Vancouver, how’s your head? The hand-wringing and spinning has commenced in full force now in the wake of the riot which gripped the downtown core after the Canucks…
Stories From the March on Blair Mountain – Part 1 The March
5812635770_02534c2672.jpg I arrived a few days early to headquarters in Marmet, WV with an overly large pack that threatened to topple me over with one slightly unbalanced step. A sleeping…
Light and fluffy time: delicious and hearty Mediterranean-style stew
Ok, I realize that stew is not something we would generally think of as light and fluffy – but I meant that this is not a serious political or philosophical…
Night Of The Neanderthals
A battered guy on the ground wearing a Bruins jersey. A security guard getting the shit beat out of him, simply trying to stop looters from destroying his store. This…
Tough on pot
When the Conservatives talk about 'tough on crime', this is what they really mean.
On the Vancouver riots
Wow things got ugly here last night, and I don’t mean downtown. Critical thinking gave way to mass condemnation online as an arms race of criticism took over any actual…
Jack Layton May Have Sold Out for Nothing
I mentioned yesterday being surprised that every single NDP voted in favour of bombing the hell out of Libya.Layton performed his usual posturing, saying yes drop those 1000 bombs, but…
Bobby Kennedy Jr. Talks "The Last Mountain" With Director Bill Haney
The-Last-Mountain-Movie-Poster.jpg The companies involved in mountaintop removal mining (MTR) are beginning to get much-needed exposure in the national media. For years, this issue has been rele...
The TRUTH About The Economy That Conservative Voters Are Too Stupid To Comprehend
With most of the capital in the economy having flowed to the top few percentage points of the population, the working middle class is simply not able to generate the…
Why Anthony Weiner resigned?
Source: The Huffington Post.
Jennifer Wells dissects Conrad Black’s chakras
In a nifty little article on Conrad Black, The Star almost redeems itself from the disgraceful taunts and distortions the last few weeks in its Sports pages. It's a nifty…
Who Let the Crazies Out?
That's not just in reference to the Vancouver riots, either, though those who took part in those riots - especially this couple - deserve the label of "crazy" in some…
Congratulations Elizabeth May on the First Green Party Parliamentary Climb Down!
She says one thing one day, and backs down from it the next. The Green Party of Canada is growing up folks. You see it is doing all the things…
3861…Anthony Weiner: Why?
The first why is, why did you send a picture of your, as you call it, package to anyone?Second question is, why are you resigning?Man up, Bill Clinton it and…
Puritanism and the reversal of opposites: dissolution of extremes and the coming end of an age
The West – or rather, the North West corner of this small planet – is by tradition and by psychology, puritanical in bent, still, even though this tradition is recent,…
3860…Riots: A Canuckistanian Tradition
Love the ever predictable riots last night.At least when they have riots in the States it is usually coz someone got wrongfully shot, wrongfully convicted, wrongfully something something.Not in Our…