We’ve Been Messin’ Where We Shouldn’t Have Been A-Messin’
Climate change, You Scary: In which Hank Green details the five scariest things that will likely happen because of climate change. * Find the Sci Show: Where the science goes…
February 2012
A Telling Difference
Bob Rae stood up in the House yesterday to announce that one of the members of the Liberal research staff — Adam Carroll — was responsible for the Twitter account…
Google freaks me out sometimes…
Check it – I receive ONE email in French and with the word “retraite” in the subject line (retirement, en anglais)… and look at the ad… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Erin notes that the revenue gap being used as an excuse to demand massive cuts in Ontario is nearly entirely closed with…
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
The face of unrepentant smarm: Recommend this Post
Leadership 2012 Candidate Analysis – Brian Topp
As promised, let’s take a look at each of the NDP’s leadership candidates through the lens of my three basic considerations – starting in reverse alphabetical order with Brian Topp.…
Portraits of a young girl influenced by the mainstream – Photographs by Jessica Manley
Currently a senior at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Jessica Manleybegan the project “Melissa” six years ago while still a high school student. She began working…
Long-time Conservative operative Keith Beardsley demonizes social media
Shorter Keith Beardsley: Social media is full of dirty fucking hippies who are not nice to Conservatives. The longer version: you know what I find the most egregious about our…
RCMP on the robocalls case
The lead story on the CTV national news last night was this: “RCMP investigates voter fraud allegations.” Interesting video report at the link where, among other things, a friend of…
A Robocon Tidbit
However, a source has told CTV that Sona is being “thrown under the bus” as he is not “tech savvy” and “couldn’t have done the robocalls on his own.” I…
Here is a fairly complete…
… annotated list of Harperite misdeeds, lies, slushfunds and illegal activities over the past while. Reads like news headlines from, oh, a Central American banana republic. Or maybe Italy. Nicely…
Power & Politics question of the day: "Does ‘Vikileaks’ undermine Liberal credibility on robocalls?" When will this false equivalence end?
CK of Sister Sage’s Musings has a wonderful post asking why Bob Rae apologized for Vikileaks. Good question but what hit me hardest about the post was this gem regarding…
Jesse Kline: Dalton McGuinty Should Let Alberta Steal Ontario Jobs
In a more efficient economy, people would be moving westward to fill jobs. But Mr. McGuinty’s solution has always been to subsidize dying industries, a process which necessitates taking capital…
Danny and Jerome! on Muskrat Falls financials #nlpoli
Former member of the House of Assembly and Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro director Danny Dumaresque made the news over the weekend with a claim that he had a document showing…
Robo-call revelations blowing up
Hold your guns, everyone! Peter MacKay insists that the robo-calls were an “isolated incident” and that the guilty party has already been caught, so no need to go further. And…
Perfect combo: Pamela Geller and Ezra Levant on Zombie Muhammad. Sharia!
I was scouring Memorandum just now and I see Atlas Shrugs blogger Pamela Geller is posting about her convo with Ezra Levant on Sun News (she calls it ‘Sun TV’).…
The Ghost of Black Friday Past
Riot gear: what the well-dressed shopper is wearing in Florida these days, courtesy of newly-minted blogger “Left Over”, who also happens to be a long-lost, recently re-discovered meat space friend…
Robocon Scandal continues…
It started off with just a few robocalls… Now, it seems that there were thousands of robocalls and/or live calls designed to misinform/misdirect/insult/intimidate, etc. certain Canadian voters and these robocalls…
Censorship in Canada, 2010-2011
Think censorship doesn’t happen in Canada? It does, though rarely. There are, however, many attempts at censorship, and it is something we have to be on guard for at all…