Eric Cantor: A Cancer on American Society
He wants to tax the poor and give a big tax break to the rich. It is about time that the 99% wake up to the exploitation by the 1%…
2012
Is this Milky Way Galaxy?
Source: MSNBC Actually it is Moscow seen from the International Space Station.
A Hopeful Sign
Afghan security forces seem to have derailed a major terror attack against civilians in Kabul. They intercepted a truck laden with 10-tonnes of explosives hidden underneath a load of potatoes.…
What’s Christian About the Christian Right?
They rail on about Darwinism. They argue for Creationism rather than evolution. They claim to be devout adherents to the Bible, particularly the New Testament, and worship Jesus. Why, then,…
April 21: page B 7 – a news story that is a news story…
Adam Huras of the Legislature Bureau is the reporter. First, it’s on shale gas, a topic the Moncton Times should have been reporting on about a thousand times more than…
Saturday Photo: Sun on Monet’s Pond
Several times over the last decade we’ve been in the middle of preparing to go to France for a while. I’d love to be doing that right now, but there…
Wildrose candidate Allan Hunsperger called for radio stations to be forced to air conservative ads
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Imagine an election where radio stations were forced to run small-c conservative and Christian radio ads against their will. The idea…
In Which TorontoEmerg is So Busted, or, Welcome, Jean Hill
A few weeks ago, I was talking with a colleague, whom I will call Jean Hill, and by-the-by the conversation fell to nurse bloggers. Several prominent ones were mentioned, like…
Name That Regulator: The Law Society of Upper Canada’s #Hashtag Problem
It may be the #hashtag that will ultimately will do it in. Or perhaps, it’s just that it’s still sniggeringly funny to our latent kindergarten brains when someone says the…
The Climate Change "Hoax" Hoax [Video]
Some clever person used Xtranormal to create a great video addressing climate change denial and correcting common myths held by global warming skeptics. It sounds a lot like a Skeptical…
happy diego day!
One year ago today, we adopted Diego. I had just gotten home from my spring New York visit. Allan and I had been looking at dogs online, and had decided…
It’s A Simple World: Canadian Libertarianism
There is a core attraction to libertarianism, although scholars differ on definition and expressions take different paths, almost all of us can relate to certain articulations. In North America, libertarianism…
Up at the lake
It’s cold and rainy, but I’m here with Son One, Two and Three, plus two big labs. It’s perfect. One downer: gas cap was off the boat when we got…
Autism Education in the Era of the NBACL Inclusion Government
Premier Alward of New Brunswick acknowledges IRIS’ ‘Policy Making for Inclusion – Leadership Development Program’ The New Brunswick Association of Community Living now determines inclusion and disabilities policies in the…
Muskrat Voodoo #nlpoli #cdnpoli
A Canadian Press story on Muskrat Falls this week starts with economist Brendan Sullivan’s recent critique of Muskrat Falls: He said in an interview that the province and its Crown…
Used properly, nonsense cannot survive the web.
The internet has changed fact-checking in an amazing way. Used properly, nonsense cannot survive the web. I was reading a text and the author made a claim about something unlikely…
Laundry bills
It was an undeniably exciting sport, but its inventors, Jake and Josh Meridian (pictured at right, shortly before their deaths), never could manage a rally. Their best game (shown here,…