Lampshade in filter fun
Some more fooling around in Popsicolor. The results are so dramatic. Just don’t know what to do with them with the image is so strong. Playing with a flat colour…
April 2013
The Capitalist Reformation? Not Holding Breath, Not Holding Breath.
Even dedicated capitalists are beginning to realize they’re in a hole to nowhere and they have to stop digging. Just as classical economic models are being recognized as obsolete and…
Fake tuition freeze flops after Redford’s $147 million budget cut.
Tweet“We’ve been very clear that we will not be balancing the budget on the backs of students,” Premier Alison Redford told the media at a press conference yesterday. This statement…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, April 19, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, April 19, 2013: Judges set to rule on whether suspended cops should have to check in twice…
EnvironmAnt Cantada name stripped from weather website
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/04/18/pol-weather-service-rebranding.html
Vampire Government
Claiming “We Can’t Afford It,” The Harper government has been killing all arms length entities whose job has been to hold the government to account. Its latest target is the…
Harper Hypocrisy on Full Display
In his column this morning, The Star’s Tim Harper points out something that I think many of us are all too aware of: Stephen Harper is a hypocrite. There really…
The Beslan massacre, and the Chechen terrorists
On the day in 2004 that it happened, I was in Kennebunk, getting some stuff at Meserve’s. We all watched it on the TV they had there. One of the…
Pollster wars, with bonus B.C. election factoid
Graves fires back at Bricker, here. It’s like an old-fashioned literary war, except using quantitative data! Personally, I’d like to hear from the B.C. Liberal’s top-secret pollster and advisor –…
Boston Bombings and Justin Trudeau
You need to understand a cancer to treat it. Justin Trudeau’s comments about root causes and the Boston bombing are perfectly sensible. They show a politician who has something substantive…
DOES John Woo hate helicopters?
A longitudinal study of John Woo helicopter hate: Film Helicopters Destroyed Helicopters Used Unsafely Hard Target (1993) 0 1 Broken Arrow (1996) 4* too many to count Face/Off (1997) 0…
Boston and the media
I’m finding a lot of the reporting on what’s been happening in Boston pretty bad – lots errors, lots of speculation and rumours. The news media need to take a…
It’s gonna be tough
On all sides, too. Good luck to all the good ones.
These guys…
…are used to working in the gutters, just like the CPC hyenas who hire them. (12) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Something to sing about
I’m still mulling over my visit to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside – I’ll write Part II of that post once I figure out what I think. In the meantime…here’s something fun…
Dunderfarce 2 #nlpoli
As if the week hasn’t been going badly enough for her, Premier Kathy Dunderdale decided to make it all the worse on Thursday with her scrum about her Twitter account.…
Autism Rising? Not According to Behavior Analyst Steve Taylor Who Proclaims That Autism Is 100% Genetic In Origin
Since my son was diagnosed with Autistic Disorder in 1998 the rates of diagnosed autism have risen dramatically from 1 in 500 to the current estimated rate of 1 in…
Quick Reference Guide to the BC election
Teddy here with a quick reference guide to the election in British Columbia. First, some links that may be useful: Media and other Info sources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_general_election,_2013http://www.elections.bc.ca/ge2013/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bcvotes2013/http://bc.ctvnews.ca/election-2013http://www.theprovince.com/news/bc-election/index.htmlhttp://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/ Our “Competition” for BC Election…
The Disastrous Decline of the Con Regime
It was such a beautiful day, the first real day of Spring, that I spent hours pedalling around my magic island, out of touch with the rest of the world.So…