You go, girls!
First the feared Egyptian military is forced to issue a rare apology for its misogynist brutality. Then young religious toughs in Benha, Egypt try to bully women in a beauty…
January 2012
The Hypocrisy of the Petro-State
“It is a pitiless, one-sided, mechanical view of the world, which elevates the rights of property over everything else, meaning that those who possess the most property end up with…
How boring was last night’s GOP debate?
This boring.
Music for a Sunday: Till the fearless come…
Still relevant, and still cool. How about that?
#Occupy Electro-Motive?
How can Canadians respond to the insult that comes from Caterpillar? And when unions know this is coming, why are we chronically unprepared?
Selective Memory
In his song,The Boxer, Paul Simon sang, “A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.” Frank Bruni points out, in this morning’s New York Times, that…
Fiscal Conservative, Huh?
I love this MacKay cartoon, created when Stephen Harper sold us out for a few crumbs in his “Buy American” scheme. With Obama once again promoting the insourcing of jobs…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
If an elephant has its foot on a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ~Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The Real Outsiders – Disengaged Citizens.
Havingfinally gotten around to reading Samara’s report TheReal Outsiders: Politically Disengaged Views on Politics andDemocracy,published late last year I will give a brief synopsis of theirfindings along with my reaction…
Farber On The Gatineau Mosque And Other Recent Hate Crimes
Bernie has a nice piece in the Citizen: Recently there has been a debate raging here in Canada regarding the necessity of antihate laws. There are those who believe that…
Hunting on New Year’s Eve
This lion (along with 4 others) were hunting 200 metres from our tent on New Year’s eve on the bank of the Nile at Murchison Falls, Uganda Related posts (randomly…
My Interview with Alexandra Mendès Part 1
I had a phone interview with one of the candidates running for President of the Liberal party of Canada. As we all know this is one of the most important…
Traffic to start the New Year by #nlpoli
More on the polling controversy Effective Speechmaking Whose camp is it anyway? Seven Habits of Spectacularly Ineffective Politicians SRBP at Seven A challenge for Premier Dunderdale. (so far, not a…
Zach Paikin – the Evil Conservative Conspiracist Of Evil
That’s right, folks – Zach Paikin, who is running to become the LPC’s national policy chair, is a closet conservative! At least, according to fellow Liblogger Happy Wanderer and Max…
Sixth Estate Flack Award Goes to Amateur Historian Stephen Harper
The first Flack Award of the New Year goes to Stephen Harper and the Prime Minister’s Office. There were no particular howlers among the usual dull propaganda sent out by…
Is political gun violence on Canada’s agenda too, thanks to Stephen Harper’s Conservatives?
Sarah Palin’s notorious “target” chart. Below: Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2008; Ms. Palin herself; mug shot of Jared Lee Loughner. Last year’s North American political news cycle began horribly…
Le Canadien défait Tampa Bay 3-1
Le Canadien l’emporte 3-1 Par la suite, le Canadien a défait le Lightning 3-1, pour savourer un deuxième gain de suite. Le Canadien s’est ainsi détaché de l’équipe de Tampa…
Worst “Debate”… Ever
Good grief, what an abysmal travesty ABC News televised earlier this evening in New Hampshire. Absent any substantive discussion, the most notable “gaffe” the media was able to latch onto…
Late night
Well that should finish off Rick Perry. Amazing. Here’s Andrew Sullivan’s liveblog and his sum of the reaction. Sounds like it was another Romney night by virtue of the other…
More 2012
From Failblog: There’s not going to be an Apocalypse, now finish those TPS reports: