On copyright crazy… Article by Roberto Fedrman, Washington Post In 1987, Norberto Colón Lorenzana had what we can all agree is a pretty unremarkable idea. Colón, who had just started…
Bekah Miles suffers from depression. She captured her existence in a tattoo on her left thigh. To the world it seems to say “I’m Fine.” To Bekah the message is…
“President Barack Obama is making Alaska the last leg of a 14,000-mile trip focusing on climate change in advance of a critical international meeting. Scientists say this year the average…
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” bellowed the ‘mighty’ Oz as Dorothy and her companions were discovering the secret of his power. Similarly, Stephen Harper would divert…
Is there anybody Trump won’t offend? The Asian media found this jerk’s remarks about the Japanese and Chinese offensive enough.
There’s plenty of angst in Germany over the arrival of waves of migrants/refugees such as thousands of Syrians fleeing the civil war that has brought so much misery to their…
In the old days of the Soviet Union the Russkies were known for employing the “honey trap.” That was the name given to using an attractive young woman as bait…
Here is the proof.:)
Jalil Muntaqim is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. For over forty years, Jalil has been a political prisoner, and one of the…
The story of Canada’s police apparatus and Canadian civil rights grows ever darker. The Canadian Association of Police Chiefs is after new powers “to seize mail in transit to stem…
What do you think of this picture? Long nose makes sense but I don’t know what to make of this one.
Your news links for today: The media and the public’s right to know – Ottawa Citizen Canada’s prime minister wants to make it harder for people to vote against him…
This is kind of cool, if true. A Lennon demo track from 1978 that McCartney had hoped to turn into a Beatles track in 1995. Haunting, to say the least.
Last week, I wrote a short piece for Ricochet on the kind of simple but serious economic thinking missing from the Canadian election debate so far. Here, I want to…
Like all pandemics, the Bozo Virus ran its course. For those of us who were immune, we had to watch society go mad with clowning. Some saw the horrors of…
Join me on Thursday, September 17, as I dive headfirst into my first talk at Nerd Nite Edmonton. Here is what I will be talking about: Is Orange really the…
It’s the last day of August…and survey says the electorate don’t really want anyone to be government. Check out that Abacus slide – all three parties are within three points…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Branko Milanovic answers Harry Frankfurt’s attempt to treat inequality as merely an issue of absolute deprivation by reminding us how needs are inherently…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Uber facing a gamut of legal challenges Christian law school fights B.C. law society’s refusal to call grads to…
“Fanaticism is bred by hopelessness and despair. It is not the product of religion, although religion often becomes the sacral veneer for violence. The more desperate people become, the more…
