Somebody blabbed! Below: Stephen Carter, Tweeting; Mr. Carter’s Tweet. All across Alberta it was “Super Saturday” yesterday and throughout the province members of the eternally ruling Progressive Conservative Party were…
ChainChainChain ChainOfFoolsRushInVille This is a song for Santa Rosa Jon. Its about the ways things were not so long ago, the way they are now and the way they really…
“It’s not so good to refer to what you’re going to do as a sit-in. That right there castrates you. Right there it brings you down. What goes with it?…
Disclaimer: I did not write this, I am merely posting this essay here for convenience sake; it’s nowhere else online, except in Google Books inside of a book. If I…
ANARCHIST THEORY: DIFFERENT SORTS OF FREEDOM: My dear mother, God rest her soul, used to regale me with stories of the most stupid family in the patch of geography where…
From they.com: We have a Prime Minister (that’s French for Dear Leader under the current regime) who doesn’t give a suckling goat what the people think about his policies. Beyond…
After reading more than half of Freedom, I went searching for reviews and criticisms, looking for something that expressed what I thought I thought. Sadly, there was no review or…
Crappy weekend, everyone! I suppose you wonder what His Barackness is snickering about up there. Trust me, he’s got plenty to laugh at, and most of it is listed here.…
Even with apartheid gone racial sensitivities still run deep in South Africa. There is nothing like a provocative photo to trigger a reaction. A political poster put out by the…
I’ve been watching bemusedly – and with no little horror – the arguments waged between elite media types, celebrated authors and lowly bloggers over Stephen Harper’s hint about raising the…
A little-known fact about Miss Vicky: she was once a musical theatre geek. On second thought, that’s not particularly surprising, isn’t it? Now my geeky instincts have pretty much transferred…
Riddle me this: What does this… “It wasn’t one or two cases, or one or two officers involved, but many, thus there was a pattern, a plan” to take away…
It's always hard to read a jury but the fact they have taken this long suggests they are giving the defence a close consideration. My guess (prediction is too strong…
Capitalism, in its current form, no longer fits the world around us. When a high priest of Davos says this, I can’t help but wonder. Has the idea reached a…
Mallory and her friend C’s grand finale from their late afternoon play date was a fashion show. Complete with runway, lighting, music and intro from Irene.
Nice to see Chris Matthews (and others) tackle Newt Gringrich’s puzzling obsession with Saul Alinsky. Turns out, just like so many other weird fixations of the deranged right-wing, to be…
In any democracy worthy of the name, it is not merely the right, but the responsibility of every citizen to resist unjust laws… but there is a contrast between making…
In any democracy worthy of the name, it is not merely the right, but the responsibility of every citizen to resist unjust laws… but there is a contrast between making…
Abortion as a sex selection technique is not much of an issue in Canada, but abortion re-criminalizers are grasping at any straw they can get these days, and the notion…
http://goo.gl/zISF1 GOOD BYE CHARLIE BROWN 2 !! http://goo.gl/JJ2KySign the Petition June 1985. Conservative PM Brian Mulroney signals Old Age Security (OAS) was to be de-indexed. Earlier, Finance Minister Michael Wilson…
