Da Youth Iz Down With Surveillance
And the kids have a point. The Internet used to be for porn; now it’s also for spying. Stalking old girl-friends, digging up embarrasing tweets from enemy politicians,tracking your husband’s…
2015
A uniform does not a hero make
Ignore the dust and cobwebs in the corners of the blog, it has been a long time since I’ve spent much time around here and obviously the whole place needs…
Megamind Time Machine
We kicked off a Netflix addiction with “The Croods” last night, and “Megamind” this morning. At Christmas we replaced a tube TV with a more modern LED version that can…
Jan. 31: two very, very bad, really awful, terrible days…..
The Toronto Sun is a newspaper designed to attract morons, bigots and louts. And it does very well in the Toronto region where all three groups are plentiful. Its columnists…
On destructive preconditions
Shorter Elizabeth Nickson: I’ll consider accepting the need for policies to preserve the environment just as soon as we’ve seen exactly how much gets destroyed in their absence. (h/t to…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – James Baxter discusses why there’s no reason to buy into the Harper Cons’ fearmongering in the first place: Let’s accept a basic truth:…
Weaponized Aryan Jesus?
The term “weaponized Jesus” comes from an article I read on politicsusa.com, from November 2013, titled “The Religious Right With Their Weaponized Jesus Are Not Christians.” It’s worth a read,…
Yet another rant about texting…
… and driving. So here I was last week, coming home from work along my usual route. I stopped at the Heron/Riverside lights and looked around me at the other…
Canada’s Elmer Gantry
http://djardine.blogspot.ca/ There was a time in this country when those charged with enforcing the law broke it in the name of national security. Tom Walkom reminds his readers why CSIS…
Herr Harper, Who Is Your Goebbels?
Having returned from our Cuban sojourn last evening, I have not yet had time to get caught up on the Canadian political scene, but this item by Heather Mallick deconstructing…
“And deliver us from evil.”
That line from the Anglican version of the Lord’s Prayer is a simple request to God to keep us from being beset by that which is evil in society. Were…
The Terror Laws and the Madness of Stephen Harper
When I saw Stephen Harper delivering his deranged speech on terrorism at a campaign-style event in a Toronto suburb yesterday, at first I almost felt sorry for him.Because that's not…
Queensland Live
For those awake this early Saturday, you will likely know my calculations in the previous post about time zones mixed up AM and PM. However, the good news is that…
Pretty much every time I hear Canadian Prime Minister Stephen…
Pretty much every time I hear Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper or one of his Conservative minions speak, I think of this song: “Propaganda” by the defunct punk/Oi! band Blitz.…
Canadian and American right-wing politicians going on about…
Canadian and American right-wing politicians going on about Islamic terrorism has a sickening stench of hypocrisy, considering the fact that the American government and other Western governments helped fund, arm…
Maroc-$108,125 CVRD Communications Coordinator Panned
According to the Cowichan Valley Citizen at a recent Cowichan Valley Region District (CVRD) budget meeting, “the top priority item was to create a position for a communications coordinator for…
Monbiot-The Lamps Are Coming On All Over Europe
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The world is spinning at an unbelievable rate. Change is in the air. Neo Con control of our countries is being challenged throughout the world. The following…
A call to arms. We’re going head first and at full speed down the slippery slope.
My blood is absolutely boiling. Some days, I have hope, today is not one of those days. Today I am sick to my stomach, getting sicker and sicker with each…
Disclosure produced in professional discipline producible despite Wagg
One might think P.(D.) v. Wagg, 2002 CanLII 23611 placed limits on production of disclosure in discipline matters. That would be wrong. Philip Services Corp. v. Deloitte & Touche, 2015…