Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andrew Jackson rightly questions Greg Mankiw’s faith-based assertion that increasing wealth accumulation is based solely on merit and contribution to society rather than…
June 2013
Big Brother blows the bitumen bugle.
When you live in a country where most of the news media is controlled by friends of the government, do you think you should believe all the news? Do you…
The Age of the Disposable Worker
On this blog I frequently lament the fact that we live in the age of the fungible worker, the one who is easily exchanged for another should his or her…
He’s Losing His Grip
Lawrence Martin writes that the cracks are spreading at Fortress Harper. First it was those ornery backbenchers who refused to shut up. Then one of them, Brent Rathgeber, resigned. And,…
SFH at the movies
Hollywood, here we come! SFH’s tuneful genius is to be found in Julie Pacino’s (yes, daughter of) latest flick, Billy Bates. It’s being released in the Fall in LA and…
Sun Media Shuts Down Three More
The Lac du Bonnet Leader, The Beausejour Review, and The Meadow Lake Progress. The market cannot support and yada yada yada. Its always that. Its never: “We up here in…
Guest Post: How A Battle With Cancer Made Us Stronger
Cameron Von St. James is a husband, father and caregiver. In this guest post, Cameron shares his family story of caring for his wife Heather through her cancer diagnosis and…
Did his nose just grow… again? #nlpoli
According to Nalcor boss Ed Martin, the absence of a mere $15 million of old-fashioned 2D seismic was an obstacle to multi-billion dollar global corporations doing business offshore Newfoundland and…
Commander Harper and the Guns of June
Well he's been acting a little strangely lately. The stress of watching the flood waters AND the opposition advancing, has clearly driven him over the edge.He's been dressing up in…
Union Bill Debacle Shows Why The Senate Should Not Be Elected
I’m intrigued by the battle lines drawn over the Senate’s recent decision to reject a terrible and churlish piece of legislation which would attempt to impose an improper and hypocritical…
Musical interlude
Ashley Wallbridge – Vision
No Vancouver Sun, BC residents are NOT split on twinning the Kinder Morgan pipeline
Whenever I see a headline in a newspaper describing a poll, I take it with a grain of tar. For example, a recent Mustel poll about support for twinning the…
6193…Argonauts Be Clever
That would be the Grey Cup Champion Toronto Argonauts. Their mascot’s name is Jason. That rings a bell, eh? WFDS
Morton’s Musings 2013-06-28 20:32:00
Some can gaze and not be sick, But I could never learn the trick. There’s this to say for blood and breath, They give a man a taste for death.…
Friday night blues blogging
According to Janiva Magness, this is a true story: The Devil is an Angel Too. This is the second piece I’ve posted from this session, whatever it is. There doesn’t…
A Little Uke on the Side
About 20 kilometres from home, while mentally playing the piece I had practiced all week, I asked myself if I had remembered to pack my tuner. I remembered taking it…
6191…Guns, Guns, Guns
As every news source in Canada reported the RCMP went a little Stasi in High River, Alberta today grabbing private people’s legal private guns. When our beloved Prime Minister, Stephen…
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s…Another Capitalist Superhero
We are currently witnessing a new golden age of the superhero genre. Since the early 2000s Hollywood has produced over fifty high-profile superhero films that have generated billions at the…
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s…Another Capitalist Superhero
We are currently witnessing a new golden age of the superhero genre. Since the early 2000s Hollywood has produced over fifty high-profile superhero films that have generated billions at the…