From the "He Said WHAT?" File
A Florida fire department Captain knows who’s to blame for the killing of Trayvon Martin. In Miami-Dade Captain Brian Beckmann’s mind, it’s all the fault of “shitbag, ignorant, pathetic, welfare…
2012
Mitt Romney addresses his supporters!
Who else do you think will support him? The guy flips flops so frequently that no one knows his real platform.
From the "They Did WHAT?" File
It wasn’t even close. By a 28-1 margin the Tennessee state senate has approved a bill updating the state’s sex-education curriculum to declare holding hands and kissing “gateway sexual activities.”…
Your move, Vic.
Omar Khadr formally requests transfer home from Guantanamo Ottawa has received an application from convicted war criminal Omar Khadr to transfer from Guantanamo Bay to Canada. A spokeswoman for Public…
In Afghanistan, Success Equals Failure
Afghan farmers are on target to produce a bumper crop of opium in 2012. Opium farming will increase across Afghanistan in 2012, driven by insecurity, massive corruption and economic fears…
Legal Abstractions and For-Profit Delivery
The categories we use to make sense of the world structure how we act. In his April 17th column Andre Picard, the health reporter for Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper,…
Norway’s Grotesque Travesty
He’s sane. He’s freely admitted the senseless and brutal murder of 77 people. He’s not raising anything that could remotely be recognized as a defence or mitigation. Why then is…
4500…Stephen Harper Sorta Gets It
This is a good thing. I didn’t vote for him and when I go to hipster bars I always make sure to wear my Stop Harper button but… If this…
Afghanistan, Why Do We Insist on Defeating Ourselves?
Okay, according to America’s own counter-insurgency doctrine, Western forces in Afghanistan have long passed the point where, in Afghan eyes, they transformed from liberator/defender to occupier/oppressor. And, okay, the drone…
Cher Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois et al.,
Thank you for displaying a rare from of patience and reason in the face of rhetorical manipulations and illogical accusations from lawyer, political scientist, and journalist Christian Dufour during a…
Conservative Taliban punks poison 150 schoolgirls in Afghanistan
Older Afghan schoolgirl poisoning video from 2009. OK, so I’ve seen the beheading videos, the videos where these Taliban extremists fuck donkeys, the one’s where they prepare a statement of…
Ted Nugent: The Dickhead
Ted Nugent, the rocker, told NRA members that he will either be “dead or in jail” next year if President Obama is re-elected. What did he mean by that? Now…
April 18: Prime Minister escapes death!!
Just yesterday, the big, foreign news story was that Harper was walking on a beach with his pants rolled up. Today, a nation sighs with relief and church bells are…
4499…Nothing Going On Here
City in mourning. Senators lost. 1/0. Sadness abounds. WFDS
Cultivate Your Garden: Inspiration from the Office de la Consultation Publique de Montréal
Consultation is extremely important in planning our future: witness the way that the Harperites have just undermined environmental reviews by changing the rules. But one thing I didn’t expect to…
Alberta Votes Day 24: Sleeping Arrangements at Minority Motel
Above: Preview of post-election Cabinet meetings? Despite a lackluster debate performance by Alison Redford, a pair of post-debate polls show the Wildrose margin down to 7 points. With daily controversies…
Legally hospitals cannot conceal gender of fetus from mother
Apparently certain hospitals in Ontario are withholding the gender of a fetus from a mother to avoid a gender selective abortion. Ignoring any moral issues, is such withholding lawful? No.…