Your Man Reminder
Anti-pink ribbon breast cancer awareness from Rethink Breast Cancer. The charity bills itself as the “first-ever, Canadian breast cancer charity to bring bold, relevant awareness to the under-40 crowd; foster…
2012
Intellectual Disability and the DSM-5 Autism Do-Over: Catherine Lord Then (2003) and Now (2013)
Catherine Lord, and her highly influential views about autism and intellectual disability seem to have changed a bit since the 2003 article published below and the DSM-5 Autism Do-Over which…
Definition of a Conservative
A Conservative is an old white man sitting on his porch yelling at the Future to get off his lawn. I wish I could remember where I read that. I…
Dear Leader Has Finished His Book (And We Should All Praise It!)
Because as a historian I don’t get many chances (har har) to read books by paranoid manipulative megalomaniacs, I’ve been on the edge of my seat for months now as…
Weaver’s Data is on #tarsands is Incomplete: It’s not the Whole Picture
As I predicted, there was much hype this week about Andrew Weaver’s research from the oil industry and some specious logic from a few suckered journalists who hopped on the…
All the news that fits
I couldn’t believe this—saw it on Twitter somewhere, can’t find it for the H/t—so I checked for myself. Sure enough, Canada’s National Newspaper, the Globe & Mail, did not deign…
Twitter fail
I recently put a twitter widget on my page to show my twitters — then nobody was commenting on my posts and I couldn’t figure out why until Saskboy managed…
The Peril of the Authoritarian Mind
“They would march America into a dictatorship and probably feel that things had improved as a result…. And they are so submissive to their leaders that they will believe and…
More on Election Fraud
For anyone concerned about the rapidly deteriorating system we call democracy, I urge you to read Dr. Dawg, who has done his usual excellent job of putting the pieces together,…
Latest Anonymous video: "New Scandal Revealed in 7 Days"
Anonymous threatens once again a big scoop on Toews, this time to be unveiled a week from yesterday. Is Anonymous bluffing? I doubt it.
The new Conservative journalism: we really want to get to the bottom of Robogate. Stop laughing. We do!
Funny how fast Canadian Conservative writers and operatives can turn on the ethics charm offensive as they quickly close their bag of dirty tricks and begin concern trolling for truth…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – There’s been plenty of followup on Robocon, with columns from Andrew Coyne and Thomas Walkom on the Cons’ increasingly unethical culture, along with…
What does Stephen Harper know that American intelligence agencies don’t?
Our prime minister’s concern regarding the Iranian threat to world peace has gotten a fair amount of attention in recent weeks. Stephen Harper insists both that Iran is definitely attempting…
Saturday Photo: Scary Plants and the Reptilian Brain
Happy little girl that she is, Jeanne has faced the world with a smile since she was tiny. She has not been phased or frightened by much…until she started to…
In Which TorontoEmerg is Famous
OK, not really famous, but published on Kevin Pho’s site, KevinMD.com. Check it out, and Retweet/Like/comment as you will — it’s all in a good cause. I’ll repost it here…
Questionable Election Phoning in BC – 2008
I had forgotten about this. During the 2008 election, there was an outcry in Saanich-Gulf Islands when a call went to residents the evening before the election encouraging them to…
Robocall Scandal May Blow Over
It’s been more than two days now since the media caught hold of the latest Conservative election fraud scandal. Are they going to let go? Only time will tell. For…
The new Conservative journalism: we really want to get to the bottom of Robogate. Stop laughing. We do!
Funny how fast Canadian Conservative writers and operatives can turn on the ethics charm offensive as they quickly close their bag of dirty tricks and concern troll for truth and…
GOP Debates and the State of the Republican Party
I admit, I am a political junkie. I enjoy following elections and rarely miss any national level debates whether Canadian or American. Watching the GOP presidential debate on February 22nd…
2012: Two panic narratives
The centre cannot hold. A four-year-old schoolgirl draws a picture of a man holding a gun. She says it’s a picture of her Daddy, driving away bad guys and monsters.…