5226…For Better Or Poorer Thru This And That
It was on this day in 1975 that two love mad kids, Bill and Hillary, became as one. Sorta. Anyhow Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham got hitched on this day…
October 2012
Bhutan to go 100% Organic
Bhutan is an amazing little country that has banned cigarettes and measures its success not through the backwards-looking GDP but by Gross National Happiness. In another step to be the…
OpenMedia.ca pleased with CRTC plans to protect Canadian cell phone users
openmedia_logo.jpg Grassroots group lauds announcement of public consultation for national rules for wireless October 11, 2012 – Today, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced today they will hold…
5225…National Coming Out Day
My Facebook buddy and king of the sex columnists, Dan Savage, tells me that today is National Coming Out Day. Five p.m. your time. Would someone be kind enough to…
Margaret Wente Returns, Issues Yet Another Apology for… “Careless Mistakes”
The Globe & Mail’s resident plagiarist and cheap-shot artist Margaret Wente has finally resurfaced after a mysterious two-week disappearance, with a typically vapid column on the U.S. election. Strangely, the…
Lifestyle change…
… results after 10 days. Hey! Psst. Wanna lose 10 pounds in 10 days? No – this isn’t an ad… I’m just amazed that by cutting back to a 1,000ish…
ConCalls: Israeli Ambassador Told Canadian MP to Stay Home
A little strange news linked to the election fraud of last year: The Liberal MP Borys W., who led the case to have Etobicoke Centre’s results overturned successfully, was once…
Obama’s Tepid Incremental Housing Policy
Andrew Leonard has written an excellent article on the role that housing policy has played in the U.S. economy and politics: http://www.salon.com/2012/10/10/obamas_hard_housing_lesson/ . The disappointment in Obama's performance can be…
Is Premier Wall About To Reneg On His Pledge To NOT Privatize Saskatchewan Crown Corporations?
The Saskatchewan Party lost the 2003 provincial election because then leader, Elwin Hermanson said to a reporter, “why wouldn’t we look at selling crown corporations?” That one sentence resonated with…
“Heaven Is Real: A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife” Dr. Eben Alexander
Newsweek Magazine ,Oct 8, 2012 This article is worth reading, whether you believe in God and heaven or not. I consider myself agnostic but certain experiences in my life have…
Big Bird Sings
Save the Big Bird.
Those Damned Vikings and Their Carbon Taxes
What’s wrong with those backwater pinkos in longboats? Don’t they know that socialism doesn’t work? Can’t they get it through their Scandinavian skulls that they’re supposed to be dying off…
Who Manages the U.S. Economy Better – Republicans or Democrats?
By Arthur I. Blaustein, Professor Community and Economic Development and Public Policy at the University of California, BerkeleyMost Americans have one eye on the nation’s economic crises and the other…
I won 62 socks!
I won the grand prize in the MoxyMaüs draw! 62 socks! Every pair of socks in their collection! I’m celebrating my good fortune by having a little contest of my…
Five songs for National Coming Out Day
To mark the 24th annual National Coming Out Day, here are five songs that speak directly to coming out, encourage tolerance or could easily be interpreted as pro-gay. Murs, "Animal…
New column day
Here, on the dangers of allowing corporate voices and employers to dictate what citizens are permitted (or required) to say about political issues. While I didn’t include a direct comparison…
Exploring the AIMS Commentary #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale might cavalierly dismiss Gordon Weil’s commentary on Muskrat Falls but others – more thoughtful types – will find much in it to chew on. JM’s 175 pager…
In A Pickle
Stephen Harper, Tom Walkom writes in The Toronto Star, has managed to get himself in a pickle over Huawei Technologies: On the one hand, his free-market instincts tell him that…
Leadership 2013 Roundup
While all has been relatively quiet from two of Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership camps, there’s still been some activity worth highlighting over the last few days. – First, Scott Stelmaschuk has…
McKibben On Maher: Climate Denial Smack-Down
Two of my favourite Bills talk climate change, along with the Republicans at the table. It is, as 350.org posted, a seriously awesome “smack-down” – climate science and reality versus…