April17: The debate that ran off the rails….
It was bound to happen. The letters to the editor section has a letter that not only jumps the rails on the lanugage of signs train, but fizzes off into…
April 2012
The Unbearable Pain of Being
For those who have never been quite certain of the true meaning of existential angst, may I recommend the following? And for your further discernment, Henri 2 Paw de Deux:…
Mayor Ford of Toronto gets it from the vegans
This guy is a conjoined twin of Harper. They were separated at birth. He is so full of it – just like his twin Harper. Read the story here.
Guns: Have Americans gone crazy?
Are should I say crazier! First it was men totting guns and we know the recent tragic story of George Zimmerman who shot dead a teenager – Trayvon Martin. Had…
Stephen Harper and Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Harper finds Charter of Rights and Freedoms divisive and would not celebrate its 30th anniversary. I suppose he would like to build prisons rather than to worry about freedoms or…
Vigilantes and Mercenaries: The Harper Government and the Abdication of Responsibility
With the revelation that Minister Peter MacKay failed to ask many of the obvious/necessary questions when working on the F-35 procurement, the subject of basic ministerial/government responsibility has been weighing…
Bad Religion! Good Riddance!
OMG this so awesome!
Tom Mulcair Responds To David Akin (sort of)
Yesterday, in a post for his On The Hill blog, David Akin reminded his readers that, 10 years ago, Tom Mulcair supported a Parti Québecois resolution in the Quebec National…
Danielle Smith and the Lake of Fire
Until about ten days ago I clung to the hope that all I ever needed to know about Danielle Smith was that she was the new Evita of the Alberta…
Afghanistan Reels Under the Weight of Victory
It’s typical of the war in Afghanistan that all sides are claiming victory in the wake of the recent insurgent attacks on Kabul and other cities. We seemed relieved that…
Steiff Museum
A great post: Teddy Bear Museum
Its SUCH a mystery!
How mysterious — first nobody knows who “Pierre Poutine” could possibly be, even though he apparently made thousands of calls on election day from one disposable cell phone.Now nobody knows…
Wacky Wildrose Watch
From a plugged-in contact in Alberta. Very, very interesting. Warren: Danielle Smith cancelled her media availability for CBC radio today, Global tomorrow and CTV Friday. Cancelled her meeting with the…
4495…Keith Moon To Drum At London Olympics
My friend Len Berman from Len Berman’s That’s Sports sends this along: 5. RSVP For the Closing Ceremony to the London Olympics, the organizers have asked members of The Who…
Coming up: Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival
Joyce Carol Oates is the grand winnter of this year’s Blue Met prize for a lifetime of literary creation. The Blue Met festival is gearing up at the moment, with…
4494…Hitler’s Birthday Will Be Sad In London
Ontario. London, Ontario. As you probably know this Friday is Adolf Hitler’s birthday and for some inexplicable reason pot heads, that would be chronic marijuana users, celebrate the day by…
4493…From The Land That Gave Us Jet Ski Boy
Stockwell Day. The retired member of the Stephen Harpers’ cabinet who believes that dinosaurs roamed the earth a few thousand years ago has met his match. Fellow Albertan and soon…
We’ve Only Just Begun…
Emperor Steve and his nightmare circus clowns have deemed it the ‘cost of doing business’ to redress the pushback that his Enbridge dirty deal has caused..necessary and desirable to offer…
Happy Charter Day! And the importance of an "s"
Today's the 30th anniversary of the formal adoption of the 1982 Constitution Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A lot of ink has been recently devoted to the…
Happy Charter Day! And the importance of an "s"
Today’s the 30th anniversary of the formal adoption of the 1982 Constitution Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A lot of ink has been recently devoted to the…