Returning as an affiliate: an old friend of ours.
Please welcome back as a Progressive Blogger affiliate “A Grumpy Hobbit”. Some folks who’ve been long time readers will remember “The Wingnuterer”. Well… he’s back after a long blogging absence…
April 2015
A same sex marriage, 200 years ago
Is same sex marriage a recent phenomenon? Actually, it isn't. Let me explain. On Tuesday, the odd legal team of David Boies and Ted Olsen (who opposed each other in…
A same sex marriage, 200 years ago
Is same sex marriage a recent phenomenon? Actually, it isn’t. Let me explain. On Tuesday, the odd legal team of David Boies and Ted Olsen (who opposed each other in…
A same sex marriage, 200 years ago
Is same sex marriage a recent phenomenon? Actually, it isn't. Let me explain. On Tuesday, the odd legal team of David Boies and Ted Olsen (who opposed each other in…
A same sex marriage, 200 years ago
Is same sex marriage a recent phenomenon? Actually, it isn’t. Let me explain. On Tuesday, the odd legal team of David Boies and Ted Olsen (who opposed each other in…
And I Am Back
It has been years since I blogged, I have been generally been using FaceBook and the twitters, but I have been finding that these are limited and I need a…
This Alberta Election Is Actually Exciting! Will A Shift to the NDP Hold?
Rachel Notley setting the pace We are living in tumultuous times and shifts can, in such circumstances, turn into tidal waves sweeping out the old and embracing the new. But…
HOLY FUCKING SHIT! Rob Ford To Run For CPC Against Bill Blair?
OMG!!! OMG!!!OMG!!! Sooo @towhey says that Doug Ford talked this morning about Rob Ford running against Bill Blair for Scarborough Southwest federal seat— Siobhan Morris (@siomo) April 26, 2015 So…
One That Almost Slipped Through the Cracks
You might have read this already. I’ve seen no reference to it so I thought it should be posted before it slips down the Memory Hole. From the very credible,…
BC Health officials back Vancouver’s plan to license pot shops
Richard Hughes PM Steve’s Health Minister Rona Ambrose sees pot as a narcotic that is an addictive substance. Where do these people come from. Are they really Martians? It…
Alta Liberal Leader David Swann: I’ll Just Lay Here And Bleed, Thank You Very Much
If you can’t vote Liberal, vote for someone else? That’s his message? Not: we’re Liberal and we’ve got great, progressive ideas? No! It’s: WE’RE LAME! KICK OUR ASS! PLEASE! BETTER…
Nepal tormented by aftershocks from massive earthquake that killed more than 2,500:
‘You cannot imagine the fear’ Sleeping in the streets and shell-shocked, Nepalese cremated the dead and dug through rubble for the missing Sunday, a day after a massive Himalayan…
April 26: Stray thoughts on a Sunday – and a change of pace.
I didn’t mention the Faith page yesterday.It was just too depressingly bad. The churches’ activities are the usual card parties and spaghetti dinners. Leave your brains at the door, folks.…
Stuff Happens, week 15: Oilers clean house, Notley cleans up
The Edmonton Oilers, the widely-despised local hockey squadron, continue to make a lot of news for a team that missed the playoffs. After lucking into the No. 1 draft pick,…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Arjumand Siddiqi and Faraz Vahid Shahidi remind us how inequality and poverty are bad for everybody’s health: In Toronto, as elsewhere, the…
A Contemptible, Arrogant Martinet
The other day I wrote a post about the resurrection of Bill C-377, the Harper backed private member’s bill that would wage war against unions in Canada. Toward the end…
Stephen Harper and the Insanity of the Con Regime
As Stephen Harper continues his desperate struggle to snatch another bloody majority there can be no doubt that the stress is getting to him.And one can't help get the feeling…
Two Tory budgets for the price of one.
It was Ontario’s turn this past week. How often do we get two Tory budgets at a time? On Tuesday, we had a laugh at federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver’s…
Saturday Photo: Forsythia, a First Sighting
One of the most spectacular flowers of spring around here is forsythia, whose flowers burst forth on bare branches. Saw the first ones this week, growing along a sunny wall…