It’s not abuse, it’s politics
For good or for bad, politics is a rough and tumble world. It’s like extreme sports for those of us adrenalin junkies who have an aversion to physical pain. Last…
June 2012
Treat the Patient Not the Disease
Abscesses and wounds, and especially abscesses and wounds which are infected, suppurative, purulent, and generally awful, are embarrassing for patients and difficult for nurses. Embarrassing for patients because they are…
Sleeping cat 3
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
Blogging for a good cause/fundraiser, Project #1
I’ve had a couple of good causes/fundraisers brought to my attention, & I decided I’d give each one their own unique blogpost. The first one is for a project called…
Pink Birkenstocks
What does this mean? Is it a sign of the approaching End Times? ‘Girly’ Birkenstocks? Seriously, what’s next? Practical Prada? (Kidding aside, good for Birkenstock — responding to consumer demand…
Egypt and the Disease of Power. . . .
Events in Egypt over the past 18 months have been sadly comical. First we have the initial rebellion. For over forty years the people of Egypt endured ruthless tyranny (which…
How Irish are we: Serbian edition
It’s the Serbian accent that really makes it. -srbp-
Montreal Mirror Gone?
It seems so, though the comment from the editor-in-chief (through link) makes this a little unclear. Perhaps they will continue as a web-based publication, like The Torontoist. Kind of a…
What The Extreme Right Doesn’t Want Us To Think About
Although it hardly qualifies as a startling or original insight, something occurred to me this morning as I was reading my Sunday Star. Two front page items, one about the…
PMO v PBO, who will be next?
We all realize by now that nobody really knows what the financial and social impacts of the Harper regimes omnibus Buget and departmental cuts are going to be, and that…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Time is not on our side. The longer we wait, the more assured our destruction becomes. The future, if we remain passive, will be wrested from us by events. Our…
Turkey calls for NATO meeting after Syria downs jet in international airspace
On August 2, 1964, in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, engaged three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo…
Archive Binge
I’m sure that you’ve heard of CBC Archives which has many interesting videos from the past, both political and otherwise, and I’m sure some of you know that CPAC and…
Caribou over Afghanistan
Your eyes are not playing tricks on you. That’s a DHC-4 Caribou, known to Americans as a C-7, upgraded with turboprops. They are indeed 50 years old, but they still…
Alan Turing: Remembering a Gentle Gay Genius
I really liked the way that Google marked the 100th birthday of Alan Turing. Not because I was able to crack the code eh? I gave up trying to figure…
Alert, Nunavut Shows Evidence of Warming Due to Local Industrial Development!
View Larger Map. Alert, NT Warning: there may be a mild peppering of sarcasm in the following post. About a week ago, Guelph climate change denialist Ross McKitrick — an…
Too many pets?
When you can’t tell whether your child’s finger was bitten off by your pitbull or your piranha, then maybe you have too many pets.
Interesting Bill Noble Update
ARC hasn’t spoken much about Bill Noble, though we have noted that he has left his son and that son’s mother back in Calgary when he relocated to Winnipeg. He’s…
Broadcast Standards Council tosses latest Sun News Network vulgarity back to CRTC
Sun News Network commentator Ezra Levant assails your blogger for his many ideological imperfections. Great picture! …of me. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has asked the federal broadcast regulator, the…