I am confused, as usual
Apologies for getting all Toronto-centric, but the media in The Centre of the Universe are this morning filled with stories about how the new mayor is going to “get tough”…
2015
The Hair’s ‘crazy’ care of our environment.
If no environmental regulations are required when times are good in the tar sands, why is it ‘crazy’ to impose them when times are bad? Yet that was what the…
Stephen Harper and the Great Canada Birthday Scam
Stephen Harper has spent more than a billion dollars on porky ads trying to brainwash Canadians, with their own money.He has tried to hypnotize us into believing that his is…
I Am The Chicken, And You Are My Prey
Noted without comment, other than the obvious: never…ever..mess with an angry chicken.
Fishing for support #nlpoli
When the going gets tough, the tough go fishing. In this case, a bunch of politicians in a tough spot with voters are fishing among a small bunch of politicians…
That Thing About How Those Who Forget Their History are Doomed to Relive It? Confirmed.
Autumn Forge. Familiar, No? Not many – certainly not enough – of us have any vivid recollection of the Cold War that spanned the second half of the 20th century.…
Why the Police Don’t Know Why People Don’t Trust Them
Laval police delete controversial photo from social media | Montreal Gazette. This is why the police don’t know why people don’t trust them. That, and killing First Nations youth, people…
Lord Ridley: Make Mine A Large One!
Lord Ridley, the landed aristocrat and prominent climate denier, will start work this year on two new profitable opencast coal mines close to his Grade I listed stately home and…
Alabama: A Public Hospital Serves the Poor — with Lawsuits
Southeast Alabama Medical Center, a public hospital in rural Alabama, forces poor patients to surrender their legal protections before they can receive treatment, clearing the way for the facility to…
Ezra Levant’s Absurd and Obscene Salute to Himself
He is without a doubt the most disgusting person on Canadian TV. An ugly bigoted bully if ever there was one.And he couldn't have had a worse year in 2014.But…
Explaining the revulsion: It’s not the policy differences, stupid! It’s the Wildrose corruption critique
Why are Albertans so angry about the defection of 11 Wildrose opposition members to the government’s benches? I mean, why are they really so furious? The reason — and it’s…
7 Habits According to Tolstoy
1. Keep an open mind 2. Practise empathy 3. Make a difference 4. Master the art of simple living 5. Beware your contradictions 6. Become a craftsman 7. Expand your…
When Politicians Lie…er, Misspeak Themselves
“How do you know when a politician is lying? His lips are moving.”—Political joke. Politicians don’t lie. They misspeak, they overstate, they understate. And the press distorts, takes out of…
Global Warming is Really Just a Risk Mitigation Exercise
There are four broad outcomes depending on whether we act to mitigate climate change, and whether it is as bad (or worse than) what the models predict in terms of…
Global Warming is Really Just a Risk Mitigation Exercise
There are four broad outcomes depending on whether we act to mitigate climate change, and whether it is as bad (or worse than) what the models predict in terms of…
Global Warming is Really Just a Risk Mitigation Exercise
There are four broad outcomes depending on whether we act to mitigate climate change, and whether it is as bad (or worse than) what the models predict in terms of…
January 30 Years Ago
Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: My grandmother I knew as “Nana” lived in Toronto when I was young. She’d moved back there from California, before I was born. She kept…
A Double Standard?
Under normal circumstances, a court of last resort would be welcomed in the pursuit of justice, but it is apparently an entirely different story when it involves holding Israel to…
Retrial of Al Jazeera Journalists Must Pave Way to Their Unconditional Freedom
Egypt’s retrial of Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and two other jailed Al Jazeera journalists acknowledges major flaws in their original convictions, says Amnesty International. The post Retrial of Al Jazeera Journalists…
Jan. 4: Prince Edward likes girls….
Quelle surprise…I guess that’s why it made page A2 of the ever-alert Irving press. But surely this has been public knowledge for years. I knew one of the Prince’s teachers…