Left Lane Larry
Ontario BKLT 750White vehicleWhite male driverEastbound on hwy 401 between the 427 and 400Friday, August 2, 2013 at around 11:15 p.m.Speed limit: 100 km/hDriver's average speed 99 km/hSeveral vehicles behind…
August 2013
Left Lane Larry
Ontario BKLT 750 White vehicleWhite male driver Eastbound on hwy 401 between the 427 and 400Friday, August 2, 2013 at around 11:15 p.m. Speed limit: 100 km/hDriver’s average speed 99…
Wow, Walt – Generalize Much?
If the latest utterances from Walt Heyer were the first you had ever heard from him, you could easily be forgiven for believing that the man had never had anything…
Four Ex-EPA Administrators, All Republican, Call for Urgent Action to Arrest Climate Change
You’ll probably recognize some of their names – Willam D. Ruckelshaus, Lee Thomas, William K. Reilly and Christine Todd Whitman. Over the past 43 years, each of them served a…
6301…Dr. Cox Was Right About Porn
He was one of the doctors on NBC/ABC’s Scrubs. He said that if they took porn off the ‘net the only site left would be Bringbacktheporn.com. We are going to…
Musical interlude
Dirty Vegas – 7 A.M.
Friday night: RIP JJ Cale
According to his bio at Wikipedia, JJ Cale was considering giving up the music business when Eric Clapton recorded After Midnight in 1970. Cale spent the next forty years writing…
rtod
This Revolutionary Thought of the Day brought to you by my abiding hero, Clarence Darrow. Darrow dismissed many of the remedial bandages that he and the labor movement had battled…
So I’ve Been Nominated –
Samara — a non-partisan group focused on involving more people into the political process — has nominated yours truly for its Everyday Political Citizen Project. As a young man of…
Harper’s Canada
Harper’s Canada
Calgary
Canada’s golden tar bubble
Toronto
Canada’s largest mayor, oh and he does crack.
Montreal
“Anyone who doesn’t think Montreal is one of the greatest cities in the world is clearly not from this planet!”
6300…It’s A Turtle; It’s A Hamburger
Oh my goodness check this out from the South China Morning Post via Ned Hepburn on deathandtaxesmag.com. The incident occurred on the morning of July 29, when a man, surnamed…
Detroit
If Detroit was a font it would be an abandoned Chevy
6299…Message To Premier Wynne
I know the right wing papers, the Suns, and the right wing talkers, CFRA, are all about the message that was sent to Premier Kathleen Wynne. Methinks they be interpreting…
Martin vs. Chrétien, redux?
Quote: At a Friday news conference, Ms. Wynne blamed her party’s poor showing on Mr. McGuinty…”Some of the political management of that issue was not what I would have wanted…
The Importance of "Fashionable Degrees in Sustainability"
Margaret Wente’s latest piece on energy is for the most part another boring and predicable rant about how “green energy” is too expensive. But the more interesting point is that…
Hell 2.3
Before I carry on with my exploration of Miriam Van Scott’s Encyclopedia of Hell, I wanted to note that I just got my copy of her other book – the…
United Airlines Wins "Gold" for Environment Work While Fighting Climate Action
Sigh. Airline giant United was named “Eco-Aviation Airline of the Year” today by the industry trade publication Air Transport World. This comes at the same time that United is being…