Dear Tim Hortons: It’s Not Your Lids That Are The Problem
…but what’s in the cup. Your coffee is too patriotic, and not near gay enough. I refuse to drink it. Every double-double is as though I am casting a vote…
August 2013
Saturday At The Movies
Love it! Although growing food not lawns would be even better.
Harper shows strong government is bad government
Democracy can get complicated. When there are more than two parties, it’s rare for one party to win the support of the people — that is, an actual majority. Upside-down…
Changing trajectory
Just a quick one today as I’m seriously running out of things to say. I’ve written about most of the important current trends that will effect Canada and their paths…
Musical interlude
Rah Rah – Art and a Wife
Is Mike Duffy Planning to Take Stephen Harper to Court?
OMG. It's come to this. Stephen Harper and Mike Duffy are no longer good BBQ buddies. Old Duff feels he's been roasted enough by the PMO, and now he wants…
Alice Walker Disinvited By Top US University Over Israel Criticism
The University of Michigan has disinvited Pulitzer-prize winning African-American author Alice Walker as punishment for her progressive views on Israel. The post Alice Walker Disinvited By Top US University Over…
Stephen Harper’s favourite band shows why they are the face of Conservative rock
Calgarians, and fans of the band Nickleback, are furious that the band nixed a television appearance at the charity concert for the flood victims in Calgary. Nickleback. So Conservative. So…
Friday night blues blogging
This is Robert Johnson’s Come On In My Kitchen as performed by Kara Grainger and her band with her brother, Mitch Grainger, on harp. I’ve seen Otis Taylor’s music referred…
A Friday Evening Thought
Words to live by from our friends at Occupy Canada: Recommend this Post
The Canadian Press: Union argues a publicly owned telecom provider would return surpluses to the public
We want to know: What do you think of this idea? A major union is calling on the government to set up a Crown Corporation as Canada’s fourth major telecom…
Sun Media provides platform for racism
I realize the Sun Media Corporation markets itself to rednecks and racists, but this comment attached to Cold Lake Sun article Man dead after being shot by RCMP on Cold…
Just remember as you read this blog the NSA is noting you reading
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any…
Is Stephen Harper Preparing to Abolish the Senate?
I don't know if it's constitutionally possible, but if anything can bring down the Senate it just might be this audit. The Senate's internal economy committee has accepted a plan…
We can’t ignore the little things that keep us alive
In our concern with protecting grizzlies and polar bears, whooping cranes and redwood trees, wolves and caribou, we give short shrift to the small creatures that keep the planet livable.…
6328…I Went Bowling For The First Time August 16
August 16, 1977. I was sitting in my buddy Jeff Hamilton's Honda Civic in front of a bowling alley in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan when Peter Summer of 13CJME broke the…
6328…I Went Bowling For The First Time August 16
August 16, 1977. I was sitting in my buddy Jeff Hamilton's Honda Civic in front of a bowling alley in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan when Peter Summer of 13CJME broke the…
6328…I Went Bowling For The First Time August 16
August 16, 1977. I was sitting in my buddy Jeff Hamilton’s Honda Civic in front of a bowling alley in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan when Peter Summer of 13CJME broke the…
6327…No Muslim Parking
So say the signs at the Westview Shopping Center in Spring Branch, Texas, a suburb of Houston. KPRC TV reports that the signs starting popping up during Ramadan. The story…