2011
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” ~ Albert Einstein
WEB and Violence Fetishism
First, some idle thoughts. McKee was released from detention in Regina shortly before May 26 (he was sighted at that time with Natalie Serafini near the University of Calgary). On…
Why what we do to the environment matters not to nature.
With the climate change debate raging on, despite what the science is actually saying, there is a need to look at the long view. Now I don't mean a short…
Wankers of the Week: Weiners, wieners and just plain dicks
Crappy weekend, everyone! So, how are you liking Schlongergate? Yeah, me neither. But at least it spawned some funny toons, which I’ve put to good use here. Not everyone on…
On Studied Ignorance
As the Conservatives drift off to sleep, after an orgy of self-congratulation, they would do well to look at the following paragraph: The Canadian middle class is in crisis. Each…
"Innovative Technology"
From the Star: Conservative fundraiser Senator Irving Gerstein says “innovative” technology is directly responsible for electing 40 MPs – a margin that handed the party its majority victory. “Yes, you…
Reasons people were arrested at the Toronto G20
Swiped this from the always informative Cory Doctorow and Boing Boing. UPDATE: Here's the original provided by the author, Michael Vipperman (via the Comments).
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
G. K. Chesterton
Weiner ordered to treatment for tweets. Dems converge to force his resignation.
Vitter given standing O by GOP after paying for sex and diaper changes. He remains in power, his seedy sexual deviance virtually ignored by media. I won't mention GOP hypocrisy…
On Canada’s roaming charges: We could stand to improve
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis It’s silly season again. The OECD just released another study showing that, on the telecom front, Canada is not doing so well, and continues to slide. This…
Watch: Lady Gaga does EuroPride proud in Rome
Lady Gaga concluded EuroPride celebrations Saturday in Rome with a call to international governments to defend gay rights, and an acoustic performance of her Born This Way and The Edge…
Exciting Crowdsourcing Opportunity!
With some people rightly wondering whether there's time to conduct a full and proper review of the Cons' budgetary plans before Parliament rises for the summer, now would figure to…
Jeff Hughes Shooting Inquest on July 25
From Doug Christie's newsletter:
Collateral Suicide
What do I have against the “humanitarian intervention” of NATO in Libya? Lots of things. This video contains a clue as to some of them: So, let’s recap: So far,…
Treasure hunter in bid to find Bin Laden’s remains
Right wing nutjob Bill Warren will be searching for Bin Laden's body because, "I do not trust my government or Obama". Using several ships at a cost of several hundreds…
Rating the Prime Ministers
Just a quick post to link to this Maclean's article by Stephen Azzi and Norman Hillmer in which they discuss the results of a poll rating Canada's Prime Ministers, past…
Harper Hypocritical Over Use Of $11,000 Hour Jet For Personal Reasons
“As they pad their expense account and look out the windows of their $11,000 per hour Challenger jet flights, they think that everything is going pretty well. They just don’t…
Cultural Amuse-Bouche: The Mona Lisa Curse
The world of modern art is inaccessible to many of us. In the documentary The Mona Lisa Curse (2008), Robert Hughes explains why that's the case. He traces it all…