5115…Football Be Edumacational
Watching ESPN‘s broadcast of the Syracuse/Northwestern game and Doris Burke drops this kernel of knowledge on the world. The only place in the USA where the green light is on…
September 2012
Clint Eastwood interviews Mitt Romney at GOP Convention
Invisible Mitt Romney is on the chair next to Eastwood.
Sun site still down?
Can’t post my column until it is!
The Folly of Corporate Tax Cuts
Part of the orthodoxy of right-wing ideology is that corporate tax-cuts are an unalloyed benefit to the economy. The argument goes that the lower the tax regime, the more jobs…
5114…Only In Quebec
Or Vermont and parts of Eastern Ontario could this happen. It has been widely reported that 30,000 somethings, litres, gallons, pints of maple syrup has been thiefed. This stuff is…
How America’s Job-Creator-In-Chief Actually Made his Fortune
In a much overlooked piece from Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi chronicled how Mitt Romney actually made his mega-fortune and, here’s a hint, it wasn’t a process of job creation. No,…
Poor customer service
“Man Calls Police To Complain About Prostitute Price HikeANN ARBOR, Mich. — Police in southeast Michigan say a man called to complain that a woman he had agreed to pay…
Quebec election 2012: Hoping for a minority
In a parliamentary system, we usually hope for a majority for our preferred party because this gives them the power to implement their policies. However, there are several situations where…
And This is Democracy, the Greatest Democracy?
From the HBO series, The Newsroom And then there’s Clint
Sept. 1: Did I miss something?
It was the scariest thing I have ever seen, a monster gathering of braying jackasses to choose the man who could be the next leader of the most powerful country…
The Leaders We Deserve
French diplomat Joseph de Maistre once famously opined that “in a democracy, people get the leaders they deserve.” Taken alongside the more esoteric “decisions are made by those who bother…
Harper Government Pressured Mexico To Nuke Peaceful Excellon Protests
Evidence suggests that the Harper Government pressured Mexico to nuke peaceful protests at Canadian company Excellon Resources Inc’s La Platosa Mine.
Saturday Morning Links
This and that to start your long weekend. – Antonia Zerbisias and Thomas Walkom both discuss the connection between organized labour and the very existence of a substantial middle class.…
What Do Politics And Education Have In Common?
With apologies for writing yet another post about education, I cannot escape the conviction that with the seamier side of education, with its sometimes immoral and concealed actions, its use…
5113…Clint Eastwood Thoughts
Everybody is talking about Clint Eastwood and That Chair. They, they being everybody, are making fun of Dirty Harry. Has he lost it? What the heck was going on there?…
media conference in support of war resister kim rivera
Please watch. It’s not the complete press conference, but it’s a good portion of it, and it’s worth seeing.
As Unions Die, So Does The Middle Class
There’s a lot of talk these days about defending the middle class. Politicians of all stripes claim they are the champions of the middle class.. But everyone knows that the…
If the GOP and The Chair…
… do the next to impossible and beat President Obama, I will be curious to see the US to Canada emigration data about 12 months later. I wonder if the…
marxism 2012 program notes: how abortion rights were won in canada
One of the most exciting and illuminating sessions I attended at the 2012 Marxism Conference was a history of how abortion rights were won – and are threatened – in…
Saturday At The Movies
If everyone did just one good deed a day, our world would be a better place….