Charisma Magazine caught posting altered article
What happened at Charisma Magazine? Why would an article by a guest author written in 2004 re-appear front and centre on the Charisma website, with changes, leading the reader to…
2012
PostModern PostMedia
Somehow Stephen Maher has a job at PostMedia. It’s amazing, there is still some honest journalism going on at the husk of former Black-owned newspapers, in 2012 no less. Instead…
Global CO2 emissions rise 3 percent in 2011: report
Climate change is upon us folks and it’s only going to get worse. Yes, events like the current U.S. drought, which is being called one of the worst in recent…
Musical interlude
Serge Devant feat. Hadley – Peace
Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math
Bill Mckibben has just written a must read article in Rolling stone, ignore the initial error which I also made here on P3, and go read it now. Here are…
Responding to "Why Men Have Trouble With Intimacy"
As proposed in an earlier post and enacted once so far in a more recent one, as I complete school I’ve taken on doing weekly-ish, timed, one-hour written responses to…
Omar Khadr and the Invisible Kid
I love this UNICEF message. It's one of the best messages against bullying and violence against children I have ever seen. But for some reason it also makes me think…
U.S. Drought to Last All Summer
The U.S. National Drought Mitigation Center, in conjunction with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is predicting that the devastating drought now sweeping most of the American bread basket will…
Friday night
This is John Fullbright. I made the heaven and earth, I made the stars above. Is it too much to ask for a little love? This is one of those…
A bubble of dference and flattery
Pathos of the Plutocrat, Paul Krugman, New York Times, July 19, 2012 “…Mr. Obama always bends over backward to declare his support for free enterprise and his belief that getting…
Friday night
Think escapist music is a good tonic for the end of this crazy week. I go with R3hab remixing the goddess. Yep. Have a good night.
Religious fundies boycott Comic-con with list of sins
I guess even those fearing to grow up can be boycotted during their favorite happy-time, Comic-con. A group of fundamentalist religious zealots of some kind gathered outside Comic-con 2012 in…
Making Political Hay
Well, you have to hand it to them. The Harper regime never forgoes an opportunity to exploit tragedy: In an interview airing on CBC’s Power & Politics on Friday, Citizenship…
Greedy embezzler costs 200 employees their jobs
A former employee at a government funded organization has recently been charged with embezzlement. The name of the organization and the person involved is not what is important, so I…
More than you want to know about…. mustard. Part 2
So here we have Canada with its waving fields of yellow, just screaming out for a homegrown condiment industry. “What kind of mustard do you want?” waitresses should ask all…
Welcome to the new Mind of Dan
After the massive database crash a couple of weeks ago I decided to give Mind of Dan a proper upgrade. Really these were things that I should have done a…
Standing up against bullies
Michael Mann continues to do everyone a great service by consistently not backing down when faced with constant harassment, threats and unending attempts to smear his reputation. The latest is…
Noted Climate Scientist Michael Mann Threatens Legal Action Against Far Right Scuzzbag With Fake English Accent Mark Steyn
The facebook entry is here, screen-capped below: I’m not going to link to the defamatory stuff; it compares Mike Mann to Jerry Sandusky. You can find it through the link.…
Corporate Propaganda and the Student Strike
Montreal Gazette columnist Henry Aubin makes some interesting claims in his latest tirade against the student strike. The movement is composed predominantly of an “Internet generation” who read “only that…