4421…Thirty Years Ago Today The Men With The
Really cool hats got their heads handed to them. The men with the really cool hats were the leaders of Argentina. The person that metaphorically handed them their hats was…
2012
What Does Thomas Mulcair’s Leadership of the NDP Mean for the Green Party of Canada?
I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to what Thomas Mulcair’s recent ascension to the position of Leader of the New Democratic Party (and to Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition)…
Signs of spring
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A fundamental lack of competence #nlpoli
One crowd can’t even successfully rig a process they set out to rig from the start. So now the Premier wants to have a debate she earlier rejected as unnecessary…
Kitchen table talk: food in the schools
Here’s a really great event taking place Wednesday evening, for those interested in food policy and promoting healthy eating in our schools. How do we create healthy school food environments…
4420…My Crush Got Arrested
Lisa Robin Kelly. She is semi famous and now looks soooo cracked out. She was Eric Forman’s sister on FOX’s That 70’s Show. Ridiculously hot and fired for being ridiculously…
Still Learning
It’s important to keep learning things. Whether those things are new routines or sub-routines, or new choreography, or reading new books, I don’t think it’s the *what* that matters. I…
The Assault on Statistics Canada Continues
Soon we will live in a world where we lack an empirical basis for policy and political debate, leaving everyone even more free to invent their own facts. The Globe…
4419…Fab Melo Going Pro
He’s seven feet tall and if the ex Syracuse centre can stay away from the buffet he should have a nice Eric Montrossesque NBA career. He says he hasn’t signed…
4418…Your Tax Dollars In Action
The Ottawa Citizen reports that an Ontario study “…conducted by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Public Health Ontario, the University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital Research…
Who Is Chris Vander Doelen?
He’s some Conservative-oriented hack who works as a “columnist,” and I use that word lightly, at the Windsor Star. Here’s what he had to say two days ago on the…
The State Of The Rusted Out, Fools’ Gold Era…
. …Who’s Crazy Now? A couple of months ago, when the all three polling sub-categories (eg. LINO’s Down/Dippers Up/BCCons Way, Way Up) first made it readily apparent that the BC…
My two cents on Calgary’s Peace Bridge
It’s finally done. Over budget and overdue, but it’s done. One of the most controversial pieces of infrastructure in Calgary’s history, the Peace Bridge, a pedestrian walkway over the Bow…
Vic Toews In Hospital
This just in from The Star: Public Safety Minister Vic Toews was rushed to hospital by ambulance Monday morning. A spokesperson for the minister’s office, Mike Patton, told the Star…
Minister of Adultery Decides to Waste More Taxpayer Resources
Honestly, this sort of complete and utter bullshit makes one wonder why the government bothers having press secretaries at all. I do hope that Vic Toews recovers from whatever ails…
Ann Romney answering question about husband being "stiff": "“We better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out.”"
On the same day that Politico comes out with a story on how “Ann Romney is the Romney Democrats fear most”, this. Doesn’t sound like Mitt’s putting out these days.…
Daily Social Well-Being Challenges
MeYou Health is an online community that is trying to get people to make small changes everyday that add up to big change. They have a suite of apps for…
Judith Curry Was For Me Before She Was Against Me
400px-Curry_2006_200dpi.jpg I first got to know Judith Curry—the Georgia Tech researcher who blogs at “Climate, Etc.,” and has been drawn into controversy for, in her words, “challenging many aspects of…
My Morning Ride.
BigWheelsKeepOnTurning Round&RoundVille Personally, I mark my bike riding calendar by the need to wear gloves. Or not. And, despite the fact that it was grey, that there is new snow…