Heartland and Microsoft
I think Tamino is right: Some have criticized Microsoft for “supporting” the so-called “Heartland Institute.” The basis of this is that Microsoft provides free software because the so-called “Heartland Institute”…
May 2012
Heartland pulls billboards, wont apologize
By now the news is stale, but on Friday Heartland pulled down the highly offensive billboards comparing the acceptance of mainstream climate science with such despicable people as the Unabomber.…
Black is the new Red: Why Stephen & Jason love Conrad more than they love Canadians
Powerful symbolism, no matter how you look at it: Lord and Lady Black. Below: Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Let’s be honest with ourselves, Canadians. Did any of us ever truly…
7th Berlin Binennale highlights political art – Curator Artus Zmijewski creates exhibition of activist art
When you go to the website for Berlin’s 7th Binennale, you encounter a stream of changing photographs from occupy and protest movements from around the world — Venezia, Toronto, Florence,…
Sun Media Hack Job Targets Progressive Academics
Actually, let’s start with the praise: I welcome the Sun chain’s decision to start targeting academics who are “touted as non-partisan experts” but are actually paid-up political party supporters. Of…
Sunday Night
Well done. Via Memwhore.
Verbal gymnastics? Maybe not
Fascism Anyone?, Dr. Laurence W. Britt, Free Inquiry Magazine, Council for Secular Humanism, Spring 2003 “…fascism’s principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything…
5 Questions: Shane Mackenzie
Shane Mackenzie is the OYL United candidate for Policy Director. His proficiency at online communications and social media brought him to my attention shortly after the last federal election. Shane…
The moon, while up at the lake on Saturday night
Let the sons stay up late to see it. Was so big and bright, it made us squint when we looked at it.
The Harper Question
I often mention in this blog examples and explanations regarding political direction. Of my entries, some of the most common questions I have asked are: In which direction are you…
Morton’s Musings 2012-05-06 22:05:00
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn…
4597…Green Energy: Fuggedaboutit
A died in the wool self interested Conservative friend of mine who works in an industry dependent on fossil fuels says that this research into green energy is just a…
The Hunger Games
We are in a strange moment. It is a moment that calls out for resistance — the global retrenchment of class power through austerity; the increasingly bold political attacks on…
Just testing some stuff
I’m testing out a WP -> Google Plus Widget. Continue reading →
Росгосстрах – for all followers of Russian politics out there
Photo from May 6th, 2012 in Moscow, just as the anti-Putin mass march is about to confront the riot police blocking a bridge ahead. (from BBC World Service) For fans…
Росгосстрах – for all followers of Russian politics out there
Photo from May 6th, 2012 in Moscow, just as the anti-Putin mass march is about to confront the riot police blocking a bridge ahead. (from BBC World Service)For fans of…
Росгосстрах – for all followers of Russian politics out there
Photo from May 6th, 2012 in Moscow, just as the anti-Putin mass march is about to confront the riot police blocking a bridge ahead. (from BBC World Service) For fans…
Canada Crime Bill C10 hunger striker takes protest to Parliament Hill
MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, May 6, 2012 – Today marks the 53rd day of my indefinite hunger strike against Canada’s new draconian crime law, the deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities…