Jay Pharoah is new Obama impersonator on SNL
He did impersonation of Obama in the past. Not bad!
2012
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – If there’s anything missing from Mark Weidbrot’s musings about the possibility of a U.S. debt downgrade, it’s that the only significant threat…
Sept. 16: Stray thought on a Sunday…
Inevitably, if you argue current events, somebody is bound to say “All you do is talk about problems. You don’t have any solutions.”Quite true. You see, before you can present…
Inconvenient Truths for the Corporate Sector
Given that recent reports have helped to puncture the myth of job-creation benefits arising from corporate tax cuts and corporate welfare, I was pleased to read Martin Regg Cohn’s article…
Senor The Savant?
Maureen Dowd writes, in today’s New York Times, that the man behind Republican rhetoric these days is Dan Senor, a kid who grew up in Toronto and graduated from the…
5160…Homeless Dude Dies Owing 33,000 In TDot
It is in this morning’s Toronto Star online. The fellow’s name is Larry Quinn and he just up and died at the age of 66 on the street in downtown…
You Daily Banerjee: The Hindu Community Strikes Back!
It has been explained to me that Canada’s Hindu community is, on the whole, quiet and unassertive. Thus, while often horrified by the actions of Ron Banerjee and his group…
Harper, champion of Democracy….. NOT!
With great fanfare, an international organization has announced it is honouring Stephen Harper as its World Statesman of the Year for his work as a “champion of democracy, freedom and…
manitoba to defy jason kenney, cover refugee health care
The Province of Manitoba has announced that it will cover health care for refugee claimants, in defiance of Jason Kenney’s vindictive cuts to help at the federal level. (I haven’t…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
The kind of hope I often think about …is, I believe, a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us or we don’t.…
Tax cuts and economic growth
A new study in the U.S. is the latest to say that tax cuts do not positively relate to economic growth. David Leonhardt of the New York Times excerpts its…
5159…It Is Not A Strike
It is a lockout. The owners of the 30 NHL teams have locked their players out yet again. Second time this decade. Started seven minutes ago. Stronzos they are, stronzos.…
5158…Looking For Something To Hate
First it was the stupid Baby On Board signs. WTF am I supposed to do? Turn around and go home coz you have your spawn in your car. Or, better…
In Sunday’s Sun: Spaceman vs. Space Cadet
The spaceman vs. the space cadet. That’s (sort of) what Sun Media’s Mike Strobel famously called the looming Liberal leadership contest between Marc Garneau and Justin Trudeau. There’ll be other…
What’s Different About Ontario? Thinking About Specificity in Student Organizing
Last Friday, the Toronto Star published a piece by columnist Carol Goar that combined useful (if depressing) information about postsecondary education in Ontario and important questions about “the quiet death…
Putin’s New American BFF – Mitt Romney
Russian strongman Vlad Putin has a new pet American – Mitt Romney. Putin told Russian reporters he’s grateful to Romney for labeling Russia “America’s number one geopolitical foe.” “I’m grateful…
Unscheduled musical interlude: Big Country
You’re welcome.
Saturday Photo; Where the Bee Sucks There Suck I
Sounds a bit crude, but as usual Shakrespeare said it, if not first, then most interstingly: Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There…