A Competition and Journal Looking Into Philosophy and Games
Games are a very popular cultural medium with a reputation for not being very “deep”. Game Praxis is a new project I’ve co-founded to encourage game makers and players to…
April 2015
The Missing Modi Photo Op
Filed under: Cartoons (Single Panel), Making fun of Conservatives, Making fun of Harper Tagged: Political
On radioactive proposals
Never mind Brad Wall’s hand-picked group of nuclear industry shills using public money to further their own profits found that nuclear power is not price-competitive even among an artificially limited…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jay Baron Nicorvo discusses how the myth of U.S. meritocracy serves largely as a means of funneling profits toward the 1%. And Mary…
The Brown Retort
Since Patrick Brown looks set to become PCPO leader, its good to start looking for sources of intel on him now. The Brown Retort has material on the PC MP…
Blue Ocean Event: Much Worse Than Predicted By The Models
Although I gladly yield expertise on the environmental and climate change files to my fellow blogger, The Disaffected Lib, who has been doing exemplary work these past several years, every…
Stephen Harper and the Great War on Russia
As we all know Stephen Harper is no Great Warrior Leader, no matter what his faithful flunkies, and the voices in his head tell him.And we'd be crazy to trust…
Does Joe Oliver hold the fate of a government in his hands?
Not really. The last time a budget single-handedly sank a government was in the Fall of 1979, when John Crosbie offered up a fiscal stinker that ended Joe Clark’s flirtation…
140 Law – Leading Legal Headlines
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Mark Saunders named Toronto’s next police chief Mike Duffy trial: Ezra Levant, former Sun News host, set to testify…
The Hair’s ‘Politics of Division’
Asking a voter why s/he is going to vote for the Conservatives this fall can cause a rising anger. The anger is hardly directed at the voter. This person has…
Oh Alberta! NDP Way In Front?
Even the pollsters involved don’t quite buy it. And they are using “google surveys” to compile their results, so make of that what you will. As an aside, sure he’s…
Bell Canada Slapped With $750 Million Class-Action Lawsuit
A new $750 million class action lawsuit alleges that Bell Canada tracked, collected and sold customers’ sensitive account and internet browsing information to advertisers. The post Bell Canada Slapped With…
The Political Game of Stupidity #nlpoli
Last week, the provincial Liberals came out of the candidate protection program to talk about the Dunphy shooting. Liberal justice critic Andrew Parsons told Newfoundlanders and Labradorians that his party…
Joe Oliver and the Con Plan to Kill Government
OK. I realize that Joe Oliver doesn't know what's he's doing. And that the budget he will finally deliver tomorrow was written in the PMO.But you'd think the Cons would…
TS up & at ’em!
Tabitha Southey’s column is priceless: TS begins work – as TS has begun work at every job TS has ever had – that is, with one clear objective: Whatever else…
Better Late Than Never
I’ve been meeting weekly with a writer friend to play at writing. I have tea, she has a latte, and we write randomly for fifteen minute stretches. I’ll be posting…
Earth Too – Join The Mission
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is recruiting change agents who will commit to