A robust liberalism
Now here’s something worth waking me out of this lengthy blog slumber: “I despair as I watch the erosion of the liberal views I hold dear.” Yeah, you sing it,…
June 2013
A robust liberalism
Now here's something worth waking me out of this lengthy blog slumber: "I despair as I watch the erosion of the liberal views I hold dear." Yeah, you sing it,…
A robust liberalism
Now here’s something worth waking me out of this lengthy blog slumber: “I despair as I watch the erosion of the liberal views I hold dear.” Yeah, you sing it,…
What if you’re wrong?
Great visualization of the now-famous response from evolutionary biologist, author, and well-known atheist, Richard Dawkins, when asked in 2006 about his argument that there is no god, “What if you’re…
Conservative attack on workers continues with “Private Members’ Bill”: PSAC
By: Public Service Alliance of Canada | Press Release On June 5th, Conservative MP Blaine Calkins for Wetaskiwin (Alberta) introduced Bill C-525, an Act to change the certification and revocation…
Free investment advice
Chantal Hebert has joined the list of experts squishyly predicting that Harper will not stick at his post until 2015. I agree with the pundits expecting that the Not So…
what i’m reading: the casual vacancy by j. k. rowling
The Casual Vacancy, J. K. Rowling’s first non- Harry Potter book, received almost universally poor reviews, ranging from tepid to savage. Reviewers found the book too long for the subject…
Smart Guy Talks PRISM, Is Sceptical
Connelley used to do climate scientist. He knows computers up the wazoo, and is in general a badass and not easily taken in. He thinks there is less to PRISM…
Green Party grass-roots haemorrhage: Liberals and Dippers be advised.
Well here we are, the Elections Canada filing deadline for Electoral District associations has come and gone, (June 1) so I thought I would update which GPC Electoral Districts are…
Smile
Note: Baby picture of Mike Duffy. 🙂
June 9: What to do?
There is a reader’s comment at the bottom of yesterday’s post. It asks what we should do to stop Shale gas exploration. First – can it be stopped? Yes, it…
6118…World Naked Bike Day
BBC reports that it is today. And that it started in Canada. The idea is to show how vulnerable cyclists are in city traffic. I don’t get it either but…
A Puff of Absurdity – more then just a neat title..
It’s the name of our newest blog affiliate to Progressive Bloggers.
6117…Nelson Mandela Un RIP
Oooooops. My bad. Mea Culpa. WFDS
Re: 130 seats
Warren Kinsella wants people to name 130 seats where the Liberals can win, in order to get on that stepping stone towards a majority. I have decided to name them…
The New Ottawa CFL Team Maybe Should Be Named The ‘Ottawa Scandals’ Instead Of the ‘RedBlacks’ ….
Considering what’s been going on lately in the nation’s capital with the ‘Senate Scandal’ and various other Conservative Party of Canada misdeeds … perhaps there is a more fitting name…
A Work-Out Rant
As soon as I was in my mid-30s, women everywhere started randomly looking me up and down and warning me that as soon as I hit 40, I’d have a…
Flaherty Needs to GTFO
The giant wagging finger of Jim Flaherty Jim Flaherty is an ass, in case you weren’t aware. The federal Conservative Minister of Finance, as well as a former Finance Minister…
Arturo Vega, RIP
He wasn’t perfect – he was insufficiently attuned to the fact that Nazi imagery was unwanted, even in punk – but he changed the popular culture, and not many of…
Stephen Harper, stay just the way you are.
Brent Rathgeber … hero? I never thought that an MP once called a “carbon blob” by a blogger (that would be me) would ever be hailed as a hero, but…