Earworm
Hungry as an archway through which the troops have passed I stand in ruins behind you With your winter clothes, your broken sandal strap Take this longing from my tongue…
February 2012
Molly’sBlog 2012-02-10 17:15:00
LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG: ANNUAL WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH: Coming up this February 14 (next Tuesday Valentine’s Day) Winnipeg’s annual March for Murdered and Missing Women. Here’s the invite.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Annual Women’s Memorial March…
“Obock Obama”
Wearing a matching sweater vest, Foster Friess, the billionaire investor backing Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum’s frothy campaign to be Theocrat-in-Chief of the Free World, introduces his pet candidate at…
More Evidence That Ms. Clark Cannot Add.
SnookiDon’tDoNoMath TheSituationVille Remember how we took issue with the following statement from British Columbia’s current (not)Premier when she used it as a rationale to give $125,000 to Geoff Plant’s former…
Canadian Foreign Policy Journal issue on the F-35
This morning I had a humorous item up on the F-35 brouhaha that occurred in the House of Commons yesterday. The superficial political excitement was focused on this statement from…
Flat Earthers, here’s an event you don’t want to miss. Breakfast with Rex Murphy.
You have to wonder about these big-time charitable foundations. Last week we discovered that the much-heralded Susan G. Komen Foundation was nothing but a front for rabid right wingers and…
Response and Irresponsibility #nlpoli #cdnpoli
The premier whose government was responsible for directing the search effort for a young boy in Makkovik is now calling for an investigation into the actions of the people who…
What noted Ontario judge played in Love Story (1970)?
Justice Durno. He played a goalie.
In self-defence
…may I and the rest of the 60% who voted against Harper in 2011 fire warning shots over the heads of Conservative cabinet ministers?
Negotiate, don’t legislate
With the appointment of a so-called “fact finder”, the BC government is apparently orchestrating its plan to legislate BC teachers and impose a contract. I say “so-called” because the government…
Never Let Facts Get In The Way Of Ideology: The Conservative Credo
That’s the only inference I can draw after reading about the report by Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page that there is no crisis in the current funding of Old Age…
To all those who celebrate Anne-France Goldwater’s assaults on Marina Nemat and Carmen Aguirre, think again
Winners Free speech is only defensible when it is not libel, defamation or injurious to another human being. Goldwater’s attack was a baseless assault on other humans already called indefensible…
Mash-up apotheosis?
I believe that John Hodgman may have achieved the apotheosis of Internet-type mash-ups. The following YouTube clip is video evidence of Dana Gould, doing his impersonation of Maurice Evans, portraying…
Excited delirium
A man is Tasered for walking two lapdogs off-leash. Apparently the park ranger thought it would be educational. When the park ranger confronted Hesterberg and asked for his identification, for…
The Urban Transit Blues
I was made aware a few days ago that HRM is enduring a transit strike – a few people I know don’t own vehicles and have some level of dependence…
To see the power of Twitter…
… follow the rumours about the assassination of Kim Jong-Un in Beijing. Amazing. In all likelihood untrue, but very demonstrative of the power of social media. Me? I think he…
CBC: C-11 heading to committee
By Kady O’Malley for CBC As the Chamber prepares to shut down for the weekend, the time allocation hammer drops on the contentious C-11 — the copyright bill, to its…
Trinity Broadcasting Network board accused of diverting millions of dollars
In October, Paul Crouch Jr. abruptly left Trinity Broadcasting Corporation. The explanation given was vague. This may have been the reason why; his daughter, Brittany Koper, former TBN CFO, is…
Okay, I Get It. Harper Needs China to Buy Bitumen So Canada Can Buy F-35s to Defend Canada Against China.
Okay, now it all makes sense. According to PostMedia’s howler, Matthew Fisher, Canada needs the F-35 to defend Canada against the creeping Red Menace, China: Despite its staggering cost, the…
Two authors pursued by a character
In the end, good triumphed over banality: Carmen Aguirre, the “bloody terrorist” who should never have been allowed into the country according to one of the judges, won the Canada…