There’ll Be No Shelter Here! Part I of II
“There’ll be no shelter here! The frontline is everywhere!” screams Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de le Rocha in the single “No Shelter.” The song, featured on the 1998…
August 2012
4961…Gore Vidal Passes At 86
The coolest. RIP. WFDS
We Are The Solution As Well As The Problem
This podcast features Joel Salatin, interviewed by Chris Martenson from Peak Prosperity.com. Salatin rejects the idea that all human involvement in shaping the landscape is bad; in this interview he…
Somewhere beyond the sea
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
4960…Michael Phelps Olympic Career
From Len Berman’s That’s Sports comes this thought: “How’s this for perspective? The Bahamas, Chile, Algeria, Georgia, Israel, Lithuania and Venezuela, for starters, have all won fewer medals in their…
Harper’s Religious Agenda?
Does Stephen Harper’s religion affect government policy? He is associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance, an evangelical group. We all know how these evangelical groups have managed to shape…
Keeping the Demons at Bay
Yesterday, I wrote about those disaster scenarios that have a way of poisoning our imaginations. Today, I’ve been thinking about some strategies that I use to keep the demons at…
August 1: The edition of the TandT is so bad…..
….I can scarcely say anything about it.The one important item is that it’s looking like a very bad lobster season. The warm water has made the shells too soft for…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday August 1, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, August 1, 2012: Libor Lawsuits, the New Asbestos – Businessweek Italy rules that ‘no balls’ insult for…
Psychopaths versus turtles
One day last week, while we were making pottery, Chandler mentioned the turtles. Apparently they have turtles in Blakeney, Ontario, and a lot of them get killed crossing the road.…
Harper and Quebec
Tim Harper warns in today’s Toronto Star that — if the betting is right, and Jean Charest calls an election today — Ottawa could be radically transformed. If the Parti…
Baby Goat Playing
Buttermilk "plays" with her "friends" – YouTube. Filed under: Fun Tagged: cute animals
London 2012: CBC wins rights to broadcast next two Olympics in Canada
VP of English Services says the CBC is inherently different than a group of private corporations, namely in their profit motive and dhe is not expecting the CBC to make…
what is it about love?
I was looking my dogs, thinking about how each came into our lives. How one day a dog is living in a shelter, and that’s its pack and its life,…
Democracy Watch’s Indictment of Harper Government Hypocrisy
The following concise indictment of Harper corruption and hypocrisy says a great deal, doesn’t it? PM’s ex-aide charged with fraud, July 28 The federal Conservatives responded to the influence-peddling charges…
Some Think That Voters are Stupid
Hmmm…I wonder if my ballot counted when I put it behind this sign?? So, I wasn’t going to write about this excellent Toronto Star piece on changes proposed to Toronto’s…
How to be a Visionary
At least as far as this mash-up world goes, anyway. (In which running someone else’s cartoon counts as content.) Alltop is a vision of humor. How to be a Visonary,…
BP Doesn’t Pay
BP isn’t repairing the damage it caused in the Gulf of Mexico. Of course, it was easy to predict that. Enbridge didn’t clean up the huge spill in Wisconsin. Yet…
Anti-Wind Groups Should Renounce Violence
This story is most disturbing: West Grey Police are investigating alleged threats against a worker, who says he had a shotgun pulled on him while working on a wind turbine…
Kathy’s Experts #nlpoli
Would you take advice on a megaproject from a company whose own megaproject is 86% over budget and 26 months behind schedule – and counting? ladies and gentleman: Manitoba Hydro…