UConn basketball players give President Obama bunny ears
Obama’s bunny ears. Basketball players got it all wrong. This is how they should have done. 🙂
August 2013
Laziest. Spammer. Ever!
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At $12 billion, it’s no small lie.
TransCanada Pipelines announced its Energy East Pipeline yesterday. It has been in the plans for a while. For a $12 billion scheme, they gave it a few extra trumpet riffs.…
"This Is The Future. Get Used To It."
China has declared a “level 2” weather emergency, a warning normally reserved for typhoons. This time it’s for a massive and prolonged heat wave that has settled in over the…
A Battery Recharger
Still trying to get my psychic energy back, I thought I would take this opportunity to post an interview of Neil Turok conducted a few months ago by Alan Gregg.…
New TransCanada Pipeline Plan Dwarfs Keystone XL
TransCanada Corp. announced yesterday they will proceed with plans to create a pipeline capable of shipping 1.1 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil and tar sands bitumen from western…
By-election Olympics
It’s superficial, of course, to always declare political “winners” and “losers” the morning after. But people (me included) like to do it. It’s fun. And, in electoral terms, the fact…
Problem-solving psychology
Writer Ray Grigg urges Canadian government to action in problem-solving current and future environmental challenges. Grigg writes, “The psychological dynamics of problem solving are well known. When a problem is…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Frances Woolley rightly challenges the conventional wisdom that there’s no such thing as a popular and efficient tax: Few taxes generate enthusiastic popular…
Pipelines, Nuclear Waste, Lac MĂ©gantic: All Symptoms of Energitis
The front pages of the newspapers and the headlines on the news programs make me very sad this morning. The tragedy of the train explosion at Lac MĂ©gantic continues (What…
Sun Media: More Closures To Come?
At our paper we are counting the days until they come to lock the doors. There is no fight left in anyone in our building. When, not if Metroland comes…
He Doesn’t Get It
Tom Walkom writes that Stephen Harper doesn’t get the new world economy. Like Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, the creature he helped create has run amok and is trashing his home. If…
Super Thursday By-Elections: Winners & Losers
Last night’s five provincial by-elections were a wild right, with a couple of surprises and three more-or-less expected results in five suburban ridings all held previously by Liberal bigwigs which,…
Home Alarms Killing Innocent Victims?
Joel Matlin’s Home Alarms Killing Innocent People? Having a heart-attack? A grease fire? A hard time getting up after being crushed by a vehicle whilst on your bike? Don’t worry—emergency…
Home Alarms Killing Innocent Victims?
Joel Matlin’s Home Alarms Killing Innocent People? Having a heart-attack? A grease fire? A hard time getting up after being crushed by a vehicle whilst on your bike? Don’t worry—emergency…
Home Alarms Killing Innocent Victims?
Joel Matlin’s Home Alarms Killing Innocent People? Having a heart-attack? A grease fire? A hard time getting up after being crushed by a vehicle whilst on your bike? Don’t worry—emergency…
The Rob Ford crack video: the truth
Quote: “A Crown attorney on the Project Traveller case, Paul Renwick, would not answer questions. Daniel Brown, Siad’s lawyer, said in an email that ethical and professional obligations prevent him…
Come on Baby, Do the Locomotion
Capable of doing zero-to-sixty in less than ten seconds, the Flannigan Repto-Buggy was a big seller right after President Rutherford B. Hayes started building the Great Chicken Highway. Thousands of…
Byelections fallout: Will PC’s Tim Hudak still be PC leader in September?
It was an interesting night last night. The Ontario Liberals held onto 2 of their seats – in Scarborough and in Ottawa (despite gloomy polls – more on that later),…
They Awoke, And Their Subways Had All Crumbled To Dust
Remember, nobody…not the Feds, not the Hudak Tories, not the Wynne Liberals…promised a penny of the funding required to actually transform the SRT replacement from an LRT to a train…