Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Business Insider reports on a new study from the U.S.’ Congressional Research Service showing that in addition to exacerbating inequality, top-heavy tax cuts…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Business Insider reports on a new study from the U.S.’ Congressional Research Service showing that in addition to exacerbating inequality, top-heavy tax cuts…
From the Toronto Star: I am ashamed to be a Canadian. I have been involved with the campaign to keep Kim Rivera in Canada for some time. It is obvious…
Naomi Wolf saw something horrid in the Mitt Romney “behind closed doors” video – the last gasp of the American Dream. …I find remarks fascinating and important to deconstruct because…
This is a post I’ve been waiting to write for years. I’ve been on an emotional roller coaster for the past few days. While the War Resisters Support Campaign was…
The allegation is simple. Pharmaceutical companies provide doctors with studies favourable to their products but don’t publish studies that show the drug to be worthless or worse. I did everything…
Ipsos Reid has a new poll out for the provincial scene in British Columbia, showing a marked increase for the BC Liberals… but the NDP still soaring at great heights,…
Some of the best and most insightful reporting on the Harper government has been done by Stephen Maher. Yesterday he wrote: Stephen Harper took a bold step forward this week…
Many years ago, the singer Mac Davis wrote and performed a satirical song entitled “It’s Hard To Be Humble,” about a man so impressed with himself that he has no…
Watch this thoughtful presentation by Professor Robert Manne at the University of Melbourne earlier this summer. It’s a concise review of the whole climate change denial movement as chronicled in…
My grief for the Rivera family and my rage at this cruel, anti-democratic government roils unabated. I am haunted by thoughts of my dear friend Kimberly Rivera, who has given…
The worst voter fraud is being committed by 43% of Americans. With a likely close Presidential election, attention is being drawn to efforts to reduce voter fraud in many states…
Via Upworthy.com (thanks Curtis) comes this powerful speech from a man known for his humbleness; President José Mujica of Uruguay gave this speech at the Rio+20 summit this past June.…
Go visit this Tumblr page: RomCom 2012. Hilarious. h/t to Mother Jones and deBeauxOs1 who suggested Mother Jones’ Tumblr to me in the first place. An excellent web stop during…
A skilled and practised word hunter, Ian Reid can flush out sources from behind stone walls. Thursday, he scooped the Legislature’s press gang and published Mea culpa, mea culpa, the…
Ontario and New Brunswick Both Need Adult Severe Autism Care Facilities Where will our 16 year old son with severe autistic disorder and profound developmental delays live as we grow…
When I first started portraying Stephen Harper and his Con Regime as a sinister freak show, I took a bit of heat even from some of my friends. The MSM…
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s message at Peter Lougheed’s state funeral. Below: Premier Lougheed with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who haunts us still. With his state funeral yesterday afternoon, the official…
So, John Martin, a right wing criminologist who ran third in a recent election in one of the most conservative constituences in BC left the sinking Conservative ship and swam…
You may remember, as I do, how quickly even the most fervent anti-science hyper-skeptics went into fits of excitement over the announced discovery of the Higgs boson earlier this summer.…
A phone call
Received a phone call this morning from an Indian accented tech support(?) person. Woke us up and he spoke too fast, babbling something about a viewer app and that I…