Friday night
This is John Fullbright. I made the heaven and earth, I made the stars above. Is it too much to ask for a little love? This is one of those…
July 2012
A bubble of dference and flattery
Pathos of the Plutocrat, Paul Krugman, New York Times, July 19, 2012 “…Mr. Obama always bends over backward to declare his support for free enterprise and his belief that getting…
Friday night
Think escapist music is a good tonic for the end of this crazy week. I go with R3hab remixing the goddess. Yep. Have a good night.
Religious fundies boycott Comic-con with list of sins
I guess even those fearing to grow up can be boycotted during their favorite happy-time, Comic-con. A group of fundamentalist religious zealots of some kind gathered outside Comic-con 2012 in…
Making Political Hay
Well, you have to hand it to them. The Harper regime never forgoes an opportunity to exploit tragedy: In an interview airing on CBC’s Power & Politics on Friday, Citizenship…
Greedy embezzler costs 200 employees their jobs
A former employee at a government funded organization has recently been charged with embezzlement. The name of the organization and the person involved is not what is important, so I…
More than you want to know about…. mustard. Part 2
So here we have Canada with its waving fields of yellow, just screaming out for a homegrown condiment industry. “What kind of mustard do you want?” waitresses should ask all…
Welcome to the new Mind of Dan
After the massive database crash a couple of weeks ago I decided to give Mind of Dan a proper upgrade. Really these were things that I should have done a…
Standing up against bullies
Michael Mann continues to do everyone a great service by consistently not backing down when faced with constant harassment, threats and unending attempts to smear his reputation. The latest is…
Noted Climate Scientist Michael Mann Threatens Legal Action Against Far Right Scuzzbag With Fake English Accent Mark Steyn
The facebook entry is here, screen-capped below: I’m not going to link to the defamatory stuff; it compares Mike Mann to Jerry Sandusky. You can find it through the link.…
Corporate Propaganda and the Student Strike
Montreal Gazette columnist Henry Aubin makes some interesting claims in his latest tirade against the student strike. The movement is composed predominantly of an “Internet generation” who read “only that…
Rob Ford – he needs the power to…
…deport Canadian citizens. Really. He does. Really. Even Kason Jenney, that bastion of intellectualism and its assorted institutions, does not agree. When Kason is quoting Charter rights, ummmmm….. (6) Trashy,…
Mother Tongue’s last lick
Tonight will be Ottawa bookstore Mother Tongue's last event before the shop closes forever tomorrow. As Xtra reported last month, the feminist touchstone's owners chose to close the business due…
4909…Premier McGuinty Doesn’t Freak Out
The recent spate of violence is terrible in Toronto nonetheless Premier Dalton McGuinty is not out on a ledge. Judy Sgro, the Member of Parliament for York West reports on…
J’Accuse!…Fish Farmers and Our Governments
In 1894 a French army officer, Alfred Dreyfus, was convicted of treason and sent to Devil’s Island prison. In 1896 a Paris journalist, Emile Zola, printed an article called “J’Accuse!”,…
Global Warming: Most Of Us Say Catastrophe, Big Oil Says Opportunity
I’m back from a short canoe trip on a small lake just an hour’s drive from our house. The weather was warm & dry, the conversation lively, the food delicious…
Because Helping Canadians Stay Healthy is No Business of the Minister of Health
Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq seems strangely disinterested in keeping Canadians healthy. She has rejected the advice of her own advisory panel of food experts to renew monitoring of trans-fat levels…
Basic human rights should not be “controversial.” Jacksonville, this means you, too.
“After dismantling Apartheid, when we sat down to write our Constitution, we quite deliberately ensured that gays, lesbians and bisexuals were included in South Africa’s Constitution. “Having ourselves suffered terribly,…
This is the weapon of the enemy…
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