we like lists: list # 16: conformity and its discontents
Allan is in the midst of a giant Stephen King reading and writing project, and in honour of that, I’m reading my first ever book by Stephen King. From this…
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how prisons work, by brian mcfadden
Don’t forget to visit Big Fat Whale for more McFadden funnies. Even better, subscribe to his feed in the New York Times‘ Sunday Review: The Strip.
Todd Bentley’s alleged antics covered in Australian newspaper
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission We may be coming up on a holiday in Canada, but I wonder if Todd Bentley may be on his way…
Montreal LGBT couple beaten in Paris
I’ve heard via Michelle Blanc that on the afternoon of Wednesday August 1st, a Montreal trans advocate (who I’ve had the pleasure of meeting) was assaulted with her partner in…
4884…Sex Doll Rescued By Police SWAT Team
Yessssssssssssssss. And it wasn’t the RCMP.Here’s what RocketNews24.com says happened in the Shandong province, just a tad south of Beijing, home of the 2008 Olympics, of China last month. The…
Closing Arguments with Steven Skurka podcast
http://www.newstalk1010.com/Episodes.aspx?PID=2439
my day of dragonness
More interesting out of control stuff from Art Studio Filed under: art
a goony cat
This thug is also from the new version of Sketch Club. I’m not usually fond of these procedural brushes, but they throw so much uncontrollable that glop sometimes it works…
Orange cloud cat
More from the new version of SketchClub. It seems like both apps want to throw everything into it. Filed under: art Tagged: 100 cats
Spiky Red Cat
The new versions of SketchClub and Art Studio have grown up. Filed under: art Tagged: 100 cats
4983…This May Work For Mitt
Think about it. Jenna Jameson likes him. He is a Mormon, had something like five great grannies and when he becomes POTUS he could repeal the polygamy laws. You know…
4982…For The Traveling Man
gizmodo.com ran a piece recently that stated something so obvious that I bet none of us have done it. What gizmodo advised was for you and I to take our…
A Glimpse of Enbridge Muscle
Enbridge Muscle in Michigan This is what happens when you don’t play ball with Enbridge. You wind up with a couple of armed guards on your property – just in…
The battle for Olympic information between new and old media by Bruce Dowbiggin
Columnist says the London Games are a battleground between the traditional forces of broadcasting and the social-media insurgents who represent the future of information technology.
Where has all the money gone?
Into the coffers of corporate Canada. As anyone with a grasp of reality knows. The rest vote Conservative. And let’s face facts, the Liberals have mostly favoured this approach too.…
America’s Latest Drought Victim – the Mighty Mississippi
America’s drought has forced traffic closures on the Mississippi River in Wisconsin and Arkansas and in Mississippi it’s not even knee deep in places. “It looks like a coastline out…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for a sunny Sunday. – Mitchell Anderson’s second article on Norway’s success in converting oil resources into a massive source of public wealth focuses on the country’s…
Mitt Romney Has a Problem. Her Name is Rachel Maddow.
There aren’t many American journalists today who can hold a candle to Rachel Maddow. She’s aggressive, fearless and relentless – perfect qualities for exposing a charlatan like Mitt Romney. Visit…
What if Natural Gas Produced All Our Energy?
David Appell crunches some numbers and finds that if the US were to use natural gas exclusively for all its energy production it would reduce GHG emissions from 5471 Mt…
Van Gogh in Perspective
Almost everyone knows about the Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gogh, and his turbulent life of abject poverty, bouts of insanity, total failure as an artist — he sold one painting…