Another a the same cat
Repeated hand drawn images with cheap stupid silly body noise joke. Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, hiccup
June 2013
Today’s Sun News Intellectual Thought: By-elections? BY-ELECTIONS!?
This is utterly stupid: It’s about time we stopped wasting millions a year on byelections triggered by nothing other than a politician’s personal interests. Ever since the first session of…
HARD WORK
On Thursday, I had the pleasure of being a guest at the Liberal Party of Canada in Saanich-Gulf Islands‘ Hope and Hard Work goal-setting meeting. Getting together with other Liberals…
Saturday Photo: Roses and Peonies
What good is rain for? For making roses and peonies bloom. I’ve never had such lovely ones as this year, when the temperatures have been cool and the rain has…
Brilliant Analysis of the BC Election by Gary Mason
Christy Clark outworking and outframing Dix If you relish the nitty-gritty of political campaigns, like reading a well-written journalist post, and want to learn why framing cost the BC NFP…
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad mocked in satirical finger puppet performance
From The Guardian: Anonymous Syrian art group Masasit Mati launched the online finger-puppet show Top Goon: Diaries of a Little Dictator in 2011 to lampoon Bashar al-Assad’s oppressive rule. Amid…
Trudeau’s the rubber, Harper the glue.
“I’m rubber, you’re glue. Your words bounce off me and stick to you.” That juvenile little axiom popped into my head today as I contemplated the amazing Rubber Man, Justin…
Rob Ford you are responsible for the province cutting funding
Ontario’s Liberal government is cutting close to $150 million in transfer payments to the City of Toronto. The payments, which are used to fund social programs, will be cut off…
McLaren Workshop app. Eh.
and Two scribbles out of the NFB’s McLaren Workshop IOS app. I am disappointed that it’s so locked into Vimeo, because for some reason iMovie just spins it’s wheels trying…
Saturday At The Movies
It’s graduation time, so here’s Ellen DeGeneres delivering the 2009 commencement address – and great advice for living a good life – at Tulane University.
6174…Gril Guide Cookies For Sale
Courtesy of my cousin Lana Nolan in Perth, Ontario comes this advert for the best cure for over indulging in anti glaucoma medicine. What do you want, good taste or…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Chrystia Freeland writes about the dangers of increased concentration of wealth – particularly when it bears at best a passing relationship to any…
Not All Words Are Equal, or Used Equally
There’s an economic principle known as the rule of fungibility that states a commodity is equivalent to other units of the same commodity. For example, a litre of gasoline is…
June 22: Why?
the big story, front page special report covers the best part of a whole page. Why? It says almost nothing. This is essentially a feel good story about how the…
Babel Backward has an editor?
It came as a surprise when reading all the self-congratulatory stories in the Babel Backward (our name for the Toronto Star’s local grocery-flyer wrap, Barrie Advance). We found out that…
Fourniers Lose In Court
I’ve got to be a bit mysterious here, though I doubt my readers can keep straight all of the legal actions FreeD owners Mark and Connie Fournier are caught up…
Perhaps Its Time To Stop Talking And Start Acting?
For obvious reasons. Recommend this Post
Creative Destruction?
The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter wrote that capitalism encouraged “creative destruction.” Tom Walkom writes that The Great Recession has been all about destruction: In Canada, we are said to be…
Will New Brunswick Ever Act To Provide Adult Autism Residential Care?
The Campbellton Based Restigouche Psychiatric Hospital is the Only NB Based Residential Care Option for Severely Autistic Adults in New Brunswick June 22, 2013 David Alward, Premier’s Council on Status…