George Zimmerman and Shellie Zimmerman
Uncanny resemblance. Especially eyes and the stare. They deserve each other.
September 2013
Hilzoy Speak, You Listen
While still ardent in her conviction to make her cold turkey retirement from blogging a permanent one, beloved ObWi ex-pat Hilzoy sends us this all-too brief dispatch (courtesy Donkeylicious) on…
Hilzoy Speak, You Listen
While still ardent in her conviction to make her cold turkey retirement from blogging a permanent one, beloved ObWi ex-pat Hilzoy sends us this all-too brief dispatch (courtesy Donkeylicious) on…
Policy Changes Bring Cleaner Solvents to Market
Industrial cleaning solvents aren’t something most people think about on a daily basis, at least I hardly do. Interestingly enough some policy changes have forced companies to change how they…
Marois builds bigotry best!
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois is using us all. She is using the ingrained bigotry of Quebec to turn Quebecers against fellow Canadians. She is using the liberal multiculturalism of Canada…
Dear awesome people of Québec, please scrap your secular charter
Or at least the parts of it that tell people what they can and cannot wear to work. And any other bits of blatant nativism/racism that may have escaped the…
Ten Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn’t Want You to Talk About
In Oceania and throughout the West, there are things citizens are not supposed to remember. After all, if we don’t remember them, did they really happen? Click here for a…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, September 11, 2013: See the seven most extreme state laws proposed this year: Why lawyers will love…
Privilege In A Nutshell (Or, There You Go Again, Richard Dawkins)
Srsly, WTF? In a recent interview with the Times magazine, Richard Dawkins attempted to defend what he called “mild pedophilia,” which, he says, he personally experienced as a young child…
Privilege In A Nutshell (Or, There You Go Again, Richard Dawkins)
Srsly, WTF? In a recent interview with the Times magazine, Richard Dawkins attempted to defend what he called “mild pedophilia,” which, he says, he personally experienced as a young child…
On The Quebec Values Charter
First, a statement from CIJA ( The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs): There is no justification for the government’s proposed legislation. The government is rehashing old, out of context…
Double Dare Ya
Apparently, instead of taking his position as leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party seriously by articulating responsible policy, young Tim prefers to engage in children’s games: Tory leader Tim Hudak…
I hadn’t yet weighed in on Marois’ Charter of Quebec “Values”…
… because I was waiting to see exactly what it was going to look like… And, well, I’m disgusted. I’m sickened that any government in this country would go far…
Our Darker Angels
Now that the Quebec Charter of Values has been officially unveiled, it’s clear that Pauline Marois and her party are appealing to an old strain in Quebec life — fear…
Salvador Allende: Revolutionary Democrat
In memory of the coup in Chile, on this day in 1973. Filed under: Uncategorized
Today
None of us will ever forget today, not in our lifetimes. But I am struck, today, by how it is increasingly discussed less in the media – and perhaps by…
the other september 11, why "they" might hate "us", and the right to live in peace
For many people in the world, especially people in South America, the date September 11 was significant long before 2001. On that date in 1973, Augusto Pinochet, with the help…
Self-Determination as Inequality
This may be one of the more philosophical postings I've made on the blog, and that's alright. It was a thought keeping me awake, and it did come from my…
Self-Determination as Inequality
This may be one of the more philosophical postings I’ve made on the blog, and that’s alright. It was a thought keeping me awake, and it did come from my…
Le Moment Est Venu
* After blogging about climate change from my perspective as a mom for nearly four years, I’m taking a hiatus from 350orbust. For more on this, check out my July…