Should I Eat Today?
If you want to see how a Conservative talking point can be taken to the level of absurdity, look no further than salt, yes salt. Much debate about salt levels…
April 2012
Mike and Ike Head To Splitsville
Mike and Ike, some kind of sentient candy entities with human names, have apparently split up according to marketing material from the Just Born candy company. I didn’t even know…
4501…President Mitt Romney
The words just roll off the tongue, eh? The Ottawa Citizen on line says that Mitt “…Romney, the party’s presumptive nominee now that his main Republican rival has folded up…
2 examples of awesomeness from the Alberta Liberal Party
I have listened to this song too many times. It is catchy, makes a lot of good points and contains a few delicious puns. Also from the Alberta Liberals: Tory…
BP Gulf Disaster Continues
I’ve been avoiding shrimp for close to two years because I expected this. Do you remember how the EPA said it was safe for New Yorkers to return to the…
Conservative english 5.0
When the Harper conservatives tell you something, one should always look at the complete opposite for the meaning. "As you know, we have proactively reached out to Elections Canada and…
Liberals need to rethink their Quebec approach
Since the election of former Quebec cabinet minister Thomas “Tom” Mulcair as leader of the NDP last month, much attention has been paid to the political situation in Quebec and…
From the "He Said WHAT?" File
A Florida fire department Captain knows who’s to blame for the killing of Trayvon Martin. In Miami-Dade Captain Brian Beckmann’s mind, it’s all the fault of “shitbag, ignorant, pathetic, welfare…
Mitt Romney addresses his supporters!
Who else do you think will support him? The guy flips flops so frequently that no one knows his real platform.
From the "They Did WHAT?" File
It wasn’t even close. By a 28-1 margin the Tennessee state senate has approved a bill updating the state’s sex-education curriculum to declare holding hands and kissing “gateway sexual activities.”…
Your move, Vic.
Omar Khadr formally requests transfer home from Guantanamo Ottawa has received an application from convicted war criminal Omar Khadr to transfer from Guantanamo Bay to Canada. A spokeswoman for Public…
In Afghanistan, Success Equals Failure
Afghan farmers are on target to produce a bumper crop of opium in 2012. Opium farming will increase across Afghanistan in 2012, driven by insecurity, massive corruption and economic fears…
Legal Abstractions and For-Profit Delivery
The categories we use to make sense of the world structure how we act. In his April 17th column Andre Picard, the health reporter for Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper,…
Norway’s Grotesque Travesty
He’s sane. He’s freely admitted the senseless and brutal murder of 77 people. He’s not raising anything that could remotely be recognized as a defence or mitigation. Why then is…
4500…Stephen Harper Sorta Gets It
This is a good thing. I didn’t vote for him and when I go to hipster bars I always make sure to wear my Stop Harper button but… If this…
Afghanistan, Why Do We Insist on Defeating Ourselves?
Okay, according to America’s own counter-insurgency doctrine, Western forces in Afghanistan have long passed the point where, in Afghan eyes, they transformed from liberator/defender to occupier/oppressor. And, okay, the drone…
Cher Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois et al.,
Thank you for displaying a rare from of patience and reason in the face of rhetorical manipulations and illogical accusations from lawyer, political scientist, and journalist Christian Dufour during a…
Conservative Taliban punks poison 150 schoolgirls in Afghanistan
Older Afghan schoolgirl poisoning video from 2009. OK, so I’ve seen the beheading videos, the videos where these Taliban extremists fuck donkeys, the one’s where they prepare a statement of…