Molly’sBlog 2012-02-04 16:42:00
HISTORY: ROSA PARKS: On this date Rosa Parks (1913-2005), the mother of the American Civil Rights Movement was born. On December 1st 1955 she refused an order from a bus…
February 2012
Delivering a Message
Explain to me the how the interests of public safety are served by a gang of black clad thugs showing up swaggering about and shoving people for a while, sucker…
Chris Selley goes PoMo
On why the Kenney/StuntTV faux-citizenship story doesn’t matter: I can’t help wondering: Just how “real” do we imagine TV news normally is? Do we think interview subjects really spend half…
Tim’s Comes Out
…an obvious attempt to woo The Starbuck’s crowd. Because they are just as gay out in the burbs.
Saturday Photo: Snowy Day in a Canadian Suburb
There is something to be said for the trees and gardens of post-World War II suburbs. On a winter afternoon the setting is peaceful. This was taken in Don Mills,…
Occupy Ties to former Bay Street Lawyer
The Occupy movement comes from all aspects of Canadian society, including those with close family ties to the wealthy elite. Jennifer Yang of the Toronto Star provides this backgrounder on…
No Regrets
Hi there, Nation. 2 weeks have now passed since the nomination meeting for the Alberta PC’s in Calgary-Fish Creek. As most of you are no doubt aware, I was unsuccessful…
On uncertain measurements
Patrick has assembled an interesting response to Eric Grenier’s work in quantifying the effect of endorsements in the NDP leadership race. But while I can understand the instinct to try…
Gateway is Certainly in Sinopec’s Interests. It is in No way in Canada’s National Interests
Defenceless: Selling Our Sovereignty Glavin’s been writing a series of articles on our retreat from even gesturing in the direction of national security interests in our trade and foreign investment…
Lazy Loitering Louts
In light of the Occupy movements, younger people will find this vintage video from Vancouver, very vivid. You have to wait until the very end too for a killer video…
Summing Up Republicans In One Paragraph
The Miami Herald’s Leonard Pitts has captured the sorry face of today’s Republican party and he did it in just a few lines: Under Reagan, optimism about the future was…
Polar Bear Tonja
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Hard news and straight talk (snerk)
Employees of Canada’s unofficial state broadcaster keep scraping away, but the barrel appears to be bottomless. StuntTV has it all: production values not worthy of high-school theatre, the unfunny Ezra…
What will the neighbours think?
One part of the brain can work something out while another part is doing something else, or so it seems. the regina mom stayed up all night. When that happens,…
The WATB reaction from the right over the grass roots push back over Komen’s political coming out
Who’s goose stepping now, WSJ and National Review? One of the most amusing repercussions of the Komen implosion and the causal reaction of hundreds of thousands of individual voices, including…
Whistler Celebrates 20 Years of WinterPRIDE
Gay skiers have something to look forward to this week. Whistler is celebrating 20 years of WinterPRIDE, its annual weeklong GLBT ski event. They started this in 1992, if you…
Postmedia’s conservative Jeff Lee fawns over 60’s wingnut mayor ‘Tom Terrific’ Campbell
Polarizing 60’s radical mayor Tom Campbell has died. Nobody has paid much attention. That’s because the Rob Ford inspiration was a raging right winger and hater of all things non-conservative.…
The survivors are weary – an interview with Linda Fossen
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 NIV This past week,…