Amanda Marcotte: Reddit and Creepshots
Marcotte: If women have to be in your porn whether they like it or not, you can hardly complain if your real identity is outed To which a commenter replies:…
2012
Bullying, anti-bullying, and anti-anti-bullying
A couple of days ago a 15-year old Canadian girl committed suicide after a long bout of internet bullying that followed her even when she switched schools. Prior to hanging…
The Best Reporting on Facebook and Your Privacy
by Theodoric Meyer | ProPublica Facebook hit the one-billion user mark last week, a little more than two years after it reached 500 million users. To mark the occasion, we’ve…
5234…Thank You Joe Pao Pao
The worst coach in the history of coachng brought his terrible Waterloo Warriors into Ottawa today and lost. Lost 61 to nothing. Here is the thing, we all know he…
Arctic Methane Leak Possibly Accelerating Climate Change
We hear an awful lot these days about how burning fossil fuels is emitting massive quantities of carbon dioxide and consequently warming our planet. But CO2 isn’t the only greenhouse…
In Sunday’s Sun: experience counts – but not always in the way you think
Four years ago this fall, during the U.S. election campaign that would send Barack Obama to the White House, Sarah Palin made a mistake. As historians are aware, Palin would…
Teen suicide rate drops overall but rises for girls
Overall the rate of teen suicide has dropped over time and fairly significantly. But since teenage boys commit suicide at a far greater rate than girls a significant drop in…
We get letters: this week’s psycho!
From “TRT,” trtinajax@gmail.com! This is an unfortunate consequence of the JUST SOCIETY brought to us by Mr Kinsella, his friend Pierre Trudeau and the other HUG A THUG Liberals that…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Thomas Walkom comments on the Cons’ preference for low-wage, no-rights immigrant labour as a means of avoiding good jobs for Canadians: Theoretically, temporary…
Why democracy is not enough to protect liberty
Preparing for a class this week I was researching the many cases involving freedom of religion and speech arising from persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses and came across this passage from…
Berry & Bickers: Obama will lose; say hello to President Romney
Berry & Bickers electoral map forecast Two professors who have a forecast model with an accuracy rate of 100% for the past 8 presidential elections believe that the next president…
we like lists: list # 18: words that were once people
I really enjoy learning about the origins of words and expressions. (I included this in our last list.) Several words now part of ordinary vocabulary started out as proper names.…
Golden Dawn Petitition
Our friends with Toronto SHARP are commenting on the Golden Dawn problem now as well so we invite our readers to take a look at their most recent post concerning…
Kid Paiken Talks Like Hippy
He says: Another very important development emerged from the Party’s 2012 biennial convention this past January, however. Liberal delegates overwhelming approved a policy pushed by young Liberals in British Columbia…
Snow in north Toronto
Melting on landing but still!!!
Arab artists withdraw from Salam. Orient Festival due to Israel embassy sponsorship
From top left: Malikah, Lena Chamamyan and DJ Sotusura Electronic Intifada reports that Arab artists have withdrawn from Austria’s government-funded Salam.Orient cultural festival because one of the sponsors is the…
The Republican Party: SS Titanic and the coming iceberg
SS Republican aka Titanic The Tea Party is winning the battle to be captain on board the good ship Republican, but just as they are about to grasp the wheel…