Some old articles I wrote for The Argosy
As I’m closer and closer to graduation I’ve thought over my time here and it led me to old articles I wrote when I was an the entertainment writer in…
2012
Home – grown terrorist attack N.Y. State
How Obama administration is going to deal with it? Terrorists are damned pigs. Read the story here.
Majority of Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi believe Obama is a Muslim
There’s a reason the deep south gets such a bad rap and is so widely mocked. This is especially true in the definitive Southern red states of Mississippi and Alabama.…
Dear Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich,
Your tone is more convincing than your words.
Monday Musings
Although today’s title suggests that I might be taking the time to write some insightful lines about the state of the world this morning, in fact I’m not feeling up…
Canada needs one of these for Conservatives: Democrats unveil ‘Republican House of Scandal’
The Democrats have done exactly what the Liberals and the NDP should have done long ago. The centre-left US party has developed a site identifying all the latest in Republican…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, March 12, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines for Monday, March 12, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter: Ohio bill requires sex therapy, cardiac stress test and notarized affidavit of impotency for…
Poll Math #nlpoli
Just for the heck of it, here’s the most recent CRA marketing poll adjusted to take out the misleading way CRA reports its clients poll numbers. Here are the Conservative…
The right’s euphoric reaction to US soldiers slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians
Whenever the right uses the ‘false equivalence’ charge for well, virtually everything when they are caught red-handed, especially when it comes to hate speech, we on the left just have…
Grecian Formula
Almost a year ago, Stephen Harper travelled to Greece to encourage Greek prime minister George Papandreou to screw his courage to the sticking point and go further down Austerity Road.…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Alison draws the links between Robocon and an American firm proud of its efforts in some of the Republicans’ most odious causes, while…
My Friend Mary.
BC’sVeryBest CitizenJournalistVille I first first noticed this lady who called herself ‘BC Mary’ on the comment threads at ‘The Tyee’. For all kinds of reasons. And not just because we…
Toronto’s Voter Suppression Protest
If you live in southern Ontario, you know that yesterday was a gift, with sunny skies and temperatures reaching about 15 degrees Celsius, surpassing normal highs by about 11 degrees.…
A win for Reproductive Justice on PEI!
PEI Reproductive Justice Activist wins Active-8 Campaign! Here are some articles that ran recently, about Kandace Hagen’s co-win and about some ugliness that threatened to undermine the spirit of the…
Harper’s dream of a Republican Canada
I was checking out the site stats for LFR last night and discovered a sizeable number of referrals from Craigslist Vancouver and Craigslist Toronto over the past few days to…
Where Did Pierre Poutine Get The Script?
“He didn’t come up with the same script in 30 ridings.” Exactly. In both official languages. That suggests organisation. On the other hand, I didn’t know Andy Prescott was this…
French parrot needs translator
As you might recall, my double-yellow-headed Amazon parrot, Kazoo, came to me at the age of 13 from a Francophone family. Although she has a fairly limited vocabulary, she’s a…
Canadians and Canadian movies
Last week was an important one for the Canadian movie industry. The 32nd Annual Genie Awards, honoring Canada's greatest, was held Thursday. As expected by many, Québécois movies did rather…
Canadians and Canadian movies
Last week was an important one for the Canadian movie industry. The 32nd Annual Genie Awards, honoring Canada’s greatest, was held Thursday. As expected by many, Québécois movies did rather…