Letter from the trenches
I have received a letter from a student who obtained his doctoral degree with me a few years ago, and after one postdoctoral appointment decided that their heart was really…
2012
Revitalizing COPE Vancouver, Right Now.
Today is the first day of the rest of COPE Vancouver’s life. Today is the day where the new executive needs to make its first priority revitalizing the party by…
On birthdays. And fathers.
My dad would’ve been 71 today had he lived. Seventy-one. He died before I was even out of diapers but I’m told he doted on me, his only daughter. His…
Res Ipsa….
…No More “DENVER, Feb 20, 2005 (Reuters) – Hunter S. Thompson, who pioneered “gonzo” journalism and became a counterculture celebrity with works such as “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,”…
Right wing blogger instrasquad feud. Does it get any better? Ed Morrissey vs. Robert Stacy McCain.
If one bit of recent silliness most defines the priggish, stuffed-shirt nature of the typical right-wing blogger, it is surely the ongoing war over the amount of skin being flashed…
Rick Santorum signals the declining relevance of the Tea Party
Rick Santorum’s recent rise to the number one contender spot versus perennial front-runner Mitt Romney has frequently been described as simply being the last in line of a long list…
Why you should vote for Grant Gordon, and by extension the Liberal Party of Canada
Yesterday, the picture below started making its rounds on the internet, and as was intended (I’m sure), it generated quite a lot of debate and discussion. I posted it to…
Ottawa Citizen Continues Pro-Government Spin on Police State Bill
Yesterday, I suggested that the Ottawa Citizen was playing into the Conservatives’ hands by trying to turn the new government snooping law into a story about, above all things, NDP…
Drums of the Great Bear – Exclusive Video of Historic Gathering Against Enbridge
The beating of drums echoed throughout the seaside community of Prince Rupert, BC, on February 4 as thousands of First Nations and BC citizens banded together to express their opposition…
Drums of the Great Bear – Exclusive Video of Historic Gathering Against Enbridge
The beating of drums echoed throughout the seaside community of Prince Rupert, BC, on February 4 as thousands of First Nations and BC citizens banded together to express their opposition…
Jillian Jillian Jillian Jiggs the crafts in your books make me need a swig
Of something. Mallory and I spent the better part of an hour this afternoon – after we all got back from Irene’s parent’s place – making a pig according to…
Vic Toews and the Hidden Hand
I’ve greatly enjoyed the humbling of Vic Toews, for I’ve never had any respect for that sinister totalitarian, religious bigot, and ghastly hypocrite. And I completely agree with this. Canadians…
"Pass the frickin’ puck"
Now that’s a different kind of political ad. Fun.
Clip ‘n’ Save: US foreign policy in a nutshell
This might also come in handy for the Harper Government™ hacks and apologists lurking here, seeing as you’re all trying to turn us into Yanks Lite with your dirty, smear-mongering…
Leadership 2012 Candidate Rankings – February 19, 2012
We’ll get plenty more information about where the leadership campaign stands once we see how membership sales have turned out. But there’s been enough news in the past week to…
Heartland Institute Threatens Legal Action Against Mom Working For A Better World
The Heartland Institute is attempting damage control after the DeSmogBlog revealed confidential documents about the institute’s funding and strategies to undermine the IPCC and insinuate its anti-science agenda into our…
4249…Fashion Week Ottawa Includes Blackface
I know, how funny is that, Fashion Week In Ottawa, the words just roll off the tongue. To be certain Ottawa is not even the fashion capital of the capital,…
Anonymous posts another Toews video. Minister of Public Safety calls RCMP.
In this Postmedia piece, the writer Jeff Davis bends over backwards to make Anonymous look as if they are sending ‘threats’ Mr. Toews’ way, an implication that in most peoples’…