At Santa Monica Pier
I bet I am the only guy here in his fifties wearing a Minor Threat T-shirt. Actually, I may be the only guy in his fifties wearing a Minor Threat…
August 2013
Der Spiegel Calls Manning Conviction "Obama’s Defining Injustice"
Der Spiegel’s foreign news editor-in-chief, Hans Hoyng, has written a scathing editorial about the conviction of Wikileaks leaker, Bradley Manning, and calling for Obama to pardon Manning without delay. President…
Germany Wants NSA Corporate Puppets Banned from European Union
Among the revelations from the NSA data mining scandal have been the identities of companies that aided and abetted the effort. Germany’s justice minister is calling for the EU to…
Is America Courting War with China?
Ever since it staged Operation Chimichanga, a dress-rehearsal of a stealth, first-strike attack to take out Chinese air defences, America has been treading gingerly along what may be the road…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your holiday reading. – Paul Buchhelt discusses eight areas where privatization has proven to be a disaster in the U.S. – with one holding particular interest for…
Exclusive: Censored EPA Pennsylvania Fracking Water Contamination Presentation Published for First Time
DeSmogBlog has obtained a copy of an Obama Administration Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fracking groundwater contamination PowerPoint presentation describing a then-forthcoming study’s findings in Dimock, Pennsylvania. The PowerPoint presentation reveals…
America: More stories of violence – beauty and the beast
Kendra McKenzie Gill and recently crowned Miss Riverton, Utah, was arrested for throwing bombs from her car along with three other suspects. She is also a candidate for Miss America.…
Self-cultivation, Secularization, and Neoliberalism
Part of how we are produced as who we are is through the ways we are shaped by socially-enforced patterns of practice and attention. We are, as Michel Foucault showed…
6307…First Lab Burger Tastes
Terrible.\ Gizmodo says that “BBC correspondant Pallab Ghosh was present at the meat’s inaugural tasting event, and has been live-tweeting the tasters.” The consensus is that it tastes so bad…
The GOP War on Working Class America
Freshmen GOP – 2010 Paul Krugman recently questioned the sanity of Congressional Republicans who, he contends, have inflicted such a level of dysfunctionality on the federal government as to leave…
Boston bomber more right-wing extremist than angry Muslim
BBC reports that Boston bomb mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev used Islam as a convenience for his attack. It appears Tamerlan Tsarnaev was not the devout Muslim he’s been portrayed. He was,…
U.S indeed is a very troubled and violent society
Before U.S tries to spread democracy in other parts of the world it must look inside their own society and how violent it has been; there seems no resolution in…
Online Surveys, No Longer Much Fun
Once upon a time, it was fun to take online polls. For lots of reasons. But one of my favourites was to watch how poorly polls could be constructed. Once,…
What’s It Going to Be This Time?
The United States is bracing for another major terrorist attack. Embassies are shuttered, the nation is on high alert. Terrorist signals traffic is said to be higher than at any…
Slocan Valley resident recounts disaster in paradise
It was a normal summer day. It was the height of the tourist season. Bed and breakfasts, restaurants, and retail stores were were swollen with visitors. Kayaks, canoes, rafts and…
For year old boy re-elected as mayor of Minnesota town
Must be a smart kid and a good administrator. 🙂 Bobby Tufts has been re-elected mayor of the small town of Dorset, Minn. Bobby was only three when he won…
Demand more for our uptown
Development in Waterloo is booming. Four large high-rises are going up: 144 Park, 155 Caroline, a condo building in the Barrelyards (Erb and Father David Bauer Drive), and a rental…
Choose Cage Free
Animal cruelty sadly still exists and we can all make a difference in the suffering of domesticated animals by changing our shopping habits. The World Society for the Protection of…
#imwithtim – Stay Tim stay!
I wasn’t expecting to be writing a followup post to this on Tim Hudak and leadership questions on whether he would still be here on Sept 9 or not so…
Better Urban Design Can Increase Happiness and Sexiness
Obesity is a growing problem in North America and it looks like this health issue will continue to grow. There are many contributing factors to what’s referred to as an…