Fire at 1 World Trade Center: maybe yes, maybe no. Confused?
Still a confusing story, but its getting clearer. From the Christian Science Monitor. Fire at 1 World Trade Center: maybe yes, maybe no. Confused?
2012
we should all miss gore vidal
I’ve been looking for some fitting tribute to Gore Vidal, who died last week at age 86, to post here. The internet is full of Vidal’s aphorisms and his cutting…
5001…Rob Ford Hospitalzed
Hizzoner of Tronna, Rob Ford, has checked himself into hospital.CBC reports that “A late-night statement from the mayor’s office said Ford went to hospital on Tuesday evening ‘after feeling unwell.’…
August 8: toe nails and the news…
But first, read p. A3, “Headstart needs school supplies”. Read it! And hang your head in shame. All credit to Headstart for putting itself up front to help buy school…
Quebec votes 2012: Separatist Option Nationale’s disingenuous appeal to Anglophones
This might come as a surprise to most Anglophones in Canada and Quebec. But it’s true. Option Nationale, a party unconditionally committed to separating Quebec from Canada, invites Anglophones to…
5000…Good, No Great News For Tim Hudak
WGR SportsRadio 550, the radio home of Buffalo Tim Hudak’s fave hockey, Sabres and football, Bills, teams, offers great news for the man who would be Premier.“US Senator Charles Schumer…
WTC fire, too many conflicting stories….
I’m reading all kinds of different stories right now, some reports say the fire was a false alarm, others that it was welding, yet others that 90 firefighters have brought…
Authorities: Fire at World Trade Center main tower in New York
I’m reading right now that the fire is under control, but still I have to admit to being a bit unnerved. The eigthh day of the eighth month on the…
4999…Joan Rivers Handcuffs Herself To Costco
In a brilliant marketing ploy Joan Rivers took her Fashion Police crew to a Costco in Burbank, California where she proceeded to handcuff herself to a shopping cart and wouldn’t…
Full moon
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Drunken ref not working any more…
Yup. She just wasn’t chosen. I’m sure that this has nothing to do with her being drunk during the Canada/US match. No siree… nothing at all… (3) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Thomas Walkom – Harper and Oil
In this time of unprecedented climate change, I think most people realize that Stephen Harper has an unhealthy addiction to oil, one that marks him as truly retrogressive as he…
Is Canada A Failed State?
The mere mention of tinkering with the Canadian Constitution generally brings shrieks and dismissals. A posture borne from past experience, suggestion of reopening seen as reckless and dangerous. I don’t…
Man Of Science
Stephen Harper said yesterday that there would be an independent review of the proposed Northern Gateway Project: “The only way that governments can handle controversial projects of this manner is…
John Paul Villeneuve
I was very sad to learn of his passing only this morning. I don’t think there was anyone I’ve ever met who was so enthusiastic about my books. With him,…
Tell us more, Mr. Science
It was quite the chutzpah filled sound bite Harper offered up during yesterday’s photo-op in B.C. where the Northern Gateway pipeline is the issue of the day: Decisions on these…
Who’s got the Summer Crazies??
So, anyone who frequents this site will know that I am a fan of Warren Kinsella’s. Yes yes, I know that many of you think he’s a douche, but this…
Climate Change: We Are Stuck Between The Impossible and The Unthinkable
David Roberts is staff writer at Grist.org. In this TEDx talk given at Evergreen State College “Climate Change is Simple”, he describes the causes and effects of climate change in…
The Lost PowerPoint Slides: Ruff ‘n Ready in Merry Olde England (Part 15)
Queen Elizabeth I In her day, the first Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth I), was widely regarded as the scariest female to roam the planet since Lucy the Menopausal T-Rex. Of…