When You’re Out of the Good Stuff, You Go For the RotGut
It’s amazing what some people will drink when they can’t find anything better. These are usually what we call “problem drinkers.” Bad things come their way sooner or later. When…
December 2013
Sorry, Israel. You Don’t Get to Bitch When Somebody Spies On You. Now, STFU.
Israeli prime minister Benny Netanyahu is steaming mad at the revelation that the Americans and Brits have been spying on Israel. Really, no seriously, the guy is hot under the…
God Speed, Mikhail
Although I’m a disbeliever it can be fun to imagine how the God we were taught to understand would deal with someone like Mikhail Kalashnikov. MK begat the AK also…
Cat asleep in bed
Just so this blog isn’t neglected for cat drawings. Filed under: art Tagged: asleep, bed, Cat
Dictionaries: Concise, Compact, and dacoit
Dacoit: noun; one of a class of criminals in India and Burma who rob and murder in roving gangs. A member of a band of armed robbers in India or…
Toronto Ice-storm, 2013: An Harrowing Eye Witness Account!
This post is reconstituted from notes that were originally written using the ash of a burnt-out candle, smudged onto an old shower curtain that my wife and I tore down…
Tidings of comfort and joy from the Hair.
The Hair was in his environment. Every lock was in line. The light touch of make-up was set to the softer lighting. It was time for the Prime Minister’s holiday…
Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten
H/t Catherin Bradbury ‘God save thee, ancient Mariner!From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—Why look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bowI shot the ALBATROSS. -excerpted from The Rime of The Ancient Mariner,…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, December 23, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, December 23, 2013: Would you go to law school if you had a do-over? 40% of young…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Michael Katz looks back at how the U.S. abandoned its poor – and how that choice continues to affect people across the income…
Ice Storm 2013
As of this writing, there are still hundreds of thousands of people without power in Toronto and the GTA from the massive icestorm that hit this area between Friday and…
Study Details Dark Money Flowing to Climate Science Denial
Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle’s long-awaited, peer-reviewed study “Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations” was published Dec. 20 in the journal Climatic Change.…
The Ice Storm, the Cons, And My Awesome People
When I heard the freezing rain tap tapping against my bedroom window the other night I feared the worst. It brought back memories of The Great Ice Storm of 1998,…
Dis·in·gen·u·ous — [dis-in-jen-yoo-uhs]
Vancouver Sun Editorial Board Considers the Issues Earlier this month, the Vancouver Sun published an editorial titled, BC Jobs Plan figures don’t signal success or failure yet. In case you…
The Hollowmen of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli
Some of you may have been surprised to find out this weekend that Nalcor has a scheme to import cheap electricity into the province. A couple of Nalcor officials could…
Rebuilding the American middle class
When you consider that the United States is the richest country in the world, the state of its working class is shocking. The country now has the highest proportion of…
Robyn Allan-“Pipelines and oil tankers: Economic cost and environmental risk.”
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Well respected Economist Robyn Allan has once again delivered the real story and has broken down the Enbridge Pipeline proposal for us. Peter Ewart, blogger and journalist…
Top 5 MPs of 2013
{Below is a version of column I submitted to several B.C. Interior newspapers in late December 2013.–MC} Allow me to start the New Year on a positive note by presenting…