In today’s Sun: Alberta’s Sarah Palin, kook
Danielle Smith, the former TV talking head now propped atop the Alberta Wildrose Alliance Party, should have heeded Harper’s lesson. When she had a chance to do so, Smith could…
April 2012
Earth Day: Carl Sagan On Global Warming
Via Climate Crocks, Carl Sagan on global warming on Earth Day 19990. Note that Sagan’s C02 numbers reflect the 1990 numbers, not current ones. And when he says that the…
4514…The Calgary Herald Is Bi
Politically that is. Today’s editorial endorsed both Wildrose and Progressive Conservative Parties for Monday’s election in Alberta. How cool is that? WFDS
4513…The Tim Hortons Gift Card Is In The Post
Happy 86th to our Queen, Liz the Two. WFDS
4513…Thomas Mulcair On The Evil Weed
He hates it. Don’t legalize it. Wait, no, I meant that no one should go to jail for having a few joints. Waffle much Thomas Tom? WFDS
Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Saturday reading. – As much sympathy as I normally have for Linda McQuaig, I’ll argue that her premise in discussing Andrea Horwath’s call for the wealthy…
4512…5200 4/20 On Parliament Hill
That is a lot of pot heads, like .05 per cent of the population of Ottawa’s metro area. No fuss, no muss, lots of high. According to Russell Barth in…
Danielle Smith wants your kids to smoke cigarettes
It’s sure starting to look like she does. Out of all the parties, only Wildrose’s Danielle Smith refused to support the majority of the measures that would keep cigarettes out…
Some Blather From Gerry Nichols: Your Mother Wears Army Boots
Earlier this week, Gerry Nichols, self-described on his website as One of Canada’s Top Five Political Minds, wrote an opinion piece in The Start entitled, In praise of negative political…
Canada’s oil is cheap
Stephen Harper wants to sell our oil at any cost. He wants to be a good salesman. Why Harper should take the blame? Because the buck stops at Prime Minister’s…
A Genetic Justification For Liberalism
It’s little wonder that liberalism endorses science when no other ideology is more endorsed by it. Foundational liberal principles have been recently strengthened by new research, solidifying the ideology not…
George Zimmerman Lies under oath
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Watch this video and you be the judge.
Reading today (when I’m not writing)
When I read it’s a bit like grazing in front of the dessert table (minus the diabetic considerations). So it is that I am currently reading, roughly a chapter…
Vic Toews’ Prison Shock Doctrine Recipe
Closing prisons from the 19th century is surely a good idea, but I have no faith that the Conservative Party cares to replace them with anything progressive based on research…
What I Have Learned from Nursing
The world of nursing on a couple of dozen flash cards. From The Nursing Channel on YouTube. While I don’t agree necessarily with every card — some of them, I…
Arab Spring: How Obama and the West are missing the boat
Thebinational business and politicalreporter Erid Reguly is always a pleasure to read. His columns in the Globe& Mail demonstrate that the years he hasspent in the US and Europe have…
Dumbing down Canadians
It started, perhaps, with the Economic Council of Canada. The Council, a Crown Corporation whose role was to conduct a wide range of economic and policy research for the federal…
George Zimmerman’s boodied head
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player To me photo of bloodied-head of Zimmerman looks fake. What do you think?
Paul Fromm: The Veil of Respectability Slips a Little More
You know it's amazing what a few weeks off will do for one's mental well-being. On April 1 when I announced I was taking a break from the blog, I…
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