Republican Delusions
Paul Krugman wrote in yesterday’s New York Times that the Republican Party is fleeing from reality: Last week House Republicans voted for the 40th time to repeal Obamacare. Like the…
2013
Some Very Good News About Linda McQuaig
Opening my Toronto Star this morning, I was delighted to learn that journalist and author Linda McQuaig, who has figured fairly prominently in many of my blog posts, will be…
An Outraged Diner Emails the In-Vitro Café
From: wally42@yaboo.com To: owner@invitrocafe.com Subject: Suing your restaurant Dear Proprietor, My wife and I managed to get a table at the grand opening of your establishment last night, and we…
TED Talk Tuesday
As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, economist Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and…
The Q2 2013 Churn Appointments #nlpoli
Cabinet made 12 appointments at the deputy minister and assistant deputy minister rank in the second quarter of the 2013 calendar year (01 April to 30 June). The information comes…
Che Wants to See You: remarkable untold story of Che Guevara by right-hand man Ciro Bustos
The English translation of Che Wants to See You was recently published. It is a remarkable insider account by Ciro Bustos, a comrade-in-arms who was intimately familiar with Che Guevara…
Rob Ford and the Scandal That Won’t Die
I thought it was strange that at a time when Toronto was convulsed over the police shooting of Sammy Yatim, Rob Ford had nothing to say about what had happened.…
Across S Basilio harbour
Our last day in Venice,,two days ago now, a fog lay dense across the harbour, as far as we could see, which wasn’t very far into the fog. You can…
Women As Meat, Volume 874,597
Backlash 101. Every attempt we made to start a serious debate was met with responses such as “feminism and rape are both ridiculously tiring”. via What happened when I started…
British evangelist Tony Anthony closes ministry after investigation finds most of his story is false
Tony Anthony I’m curious as to why Canada’s 100 Huntley Street has kept an interview with a thoroughly discredited British evangelist. In July a respected 3 man panel with the…
The secret can now be revealed
The above gig was to have featured a Hot Nasties reunion. First together in more than thirty years. Onstage with the Palma Violets. It was not to be. Ras Pierre…
Indian Head #sask Concert
I ended up at a house concert in Indian Head. It’s interesting where life takes you when you don’t plan your day. Dan Frechette and Laurel Thomsen are on their…
6308…John Baird Represents
Good on the Honourable. I don’t know if you caught this but last week “Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird denounced Russia’s controversial new anti-gay law as hateful Thursday, saying it…
More for Uptown, Part 2: Parks at King and William
At the corner of King and William there are two little parks of identical size and shape. This one, on the east side of King, is called Heritage Green. You…
City of Windsor to raise the Christian flag… again.
I got a phone call this morning from Susan in Windsor, Ontario. Susan’s rightly infuriated that her city council is violating it’s own policy by raising the Christian Flag as…
Police officers can be victims too
The sudden death of RCMP Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre was probably in mind when Resergeance.net posted the video embedded here. More than a few people believe that Lemaitre was misused by…
Corniglia from San Bernadino
Been away from WiFi for a while. Posted a few drawings from Florence today at the Tumblr blog dougsamu.tumblr.com. I’ll catch up on some past work here. Soon. If you’re…
Vets outraged as federal lawyers argue Ottawa has no social obligation to soldiers …
“Think back to every time you heard a Conservative backbench MP beat the drum, wrap themselves in the flag and denounce the opposition as traitors for not “supporting the troops”…
GOP still trying to work the referees
Given the propensity of FOX news to put GOP ‘personalities’ on the payroll and their willingness to call close elections in favour of the Republicans before all the votes have…