February 2012
Who Shipwrecked America’s Economy?
Bill Moyers points a finger Bill Moyers Essay: Who Shipwrecked Our Economy? from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
February cat
sketched with SketchTime Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: art, Cat
Liveblogging Today’s NDP Leaders Debate
Today’s NDP leadership debate lands in Quebec. I’m using 14 criteria to evaluate who I’ll be voting for. Let me know if you have suggestions for improved criteria. 2012.02.12 NDP…
Tom Maguire of Just One Minute blog states the obvious, "Guess I’m Still Stuck on Stupid"
As bloggers we often make mistakes, most often manifested in typos. For example, the spelling and use of the words “their” and “there” can dumbfound many a blogger, especially those…
Strengthening Search and Rescue, revisited #nlpoli
A couple of years ago, in the aftermath of Cougar 491, SRBP made some suggestions about how to improve search and rescue services on the east coast of Canada. The…
Choosing an Election Hashtag
Nation, the Twitter is here to stay. Whenever I’m feeling particularly optimistic about the world, or about this species we call humanity, I know I can log on to Twitter…
Is Mutiny Waiting in London for Rupe Murdoch?
What happens when you have a newspaper mired in scandal, several of its key personnel arrested, and a gaggle of unruly journalists suspicious that you’re about to throw them to…
Send Vic Toews a Valentine!
The proposed Online Spying legislation continues to threaten the future of the Internet as well as your privacy. Not surprisingly, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews refuses to acknowledge this fact…
A Central American Free Drug Corridor?
Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina is proposing that Central America become a zone where drugs are legal to make, possess and transport. Mr Perez Molina will test the waters by…
The Response to Toews’ List Should be one of Absolute Outrage
http://goo.gl/qswg The response from both the media and politicos to Toews’ list seems remarkably tepid to me. Shouldn’t an appropriate response be one of absolute outrage? I certainly consider this…
Another One Bites the Dust
Via White Coat’s Call Rooom, I wanted to mention the demise of Weird Nursing Tales: After nearly 20 years on the internet, Weird Nursing Tales passed away. Weird Nursing Tales…
The Fantastic Voyage of the Rubber Duckie
20-years ago off the Aleutians a cargo ship lost some containers in a heavy storm. Among that cargo were nearly 30,000 bath toys. Since then some of these toys have…
More Music for a Sunday: There are days…
This Luca Mundaca tune reminds me a great deal of this one by Marisa Monte, both in terms of theme and vocal stylings: Both make loneliness and getting by a…
For the Liberals, it’s time for the path not taken
A short essay for the Ottawa Citizen a few weeks ago: Before becoming leader of the Labour Party, Tony Blair wrote a pamphlet for the august thinktank of the British…
Britain May Be In a Deep Freeze But It Remains In Drought
Soggy old Britain is facing the prospect of mega-drought. Even at the height of winter, aquifers are being used to keep English rivers and lakes from running dry. Andrew Chapman,…
4208…This Has To Suck
A source I have inside the Canadian military tells me an unfortunate story. There is another Colonel Russell Williams. The first Colonel Russell Williams that comes to mind of course…
4207…While The Whole World Mourns Whitney
Angry Ottawa based marijuana advocate and activist Russell Barth hates on her on Facebook. I thought kush was supposed to make you mellow. You live, you learn. WFDS
Why The F-35 Won’t Fly
If you are interested in why the F-35 is an exceedingly poor choice for our next generation of fighter planes, read this article, where you will also see the infantile…
The Real Hoax Behind Global Warming
Oh there’s a hoax all right, a well-funded, carefully scripted hoax that’s being played out by the denialist community and its backers, the fossil fuelers. And, as the pieces continue…