The skinny on Sharknado
When we saw the ads this week for Sharknado, we thought it was another Shark Week joke commercial, like Snuffy the Seal. But Sharknado is real. Terribly terribly real.Its the…
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End of the game
When I read Ender’s Game I enjoyed it and looked forward to reading more.Then I found out how virulently anti-gay Orson Scott Card is, and how extensively he worked against…
Lac-Mégantic disaster
The Lac-Mégantic disaster happened when we were on holidays and we were not really following the news. Now that I am catching up, I have realized that the magnitude of…
Legoland stupid
Hey, I’m back.And noticing that government doesn’t have a monopoly on the stupid — here’s one from Toronto’s Legoland — they wouldn’t let a man and his daughter in because…
Holiday road
Tomorrow we’re off on vacation for a couple of weeks — we’re going west and I will try to post a few photos along the way! In the meantime, enjoy…
Momo the cat
Momo the swimming cat becomes “a symbol of hope” for the Alberta flood: Yeats’s mother, Lori Yeats, said her son was caught off-guard when the truck suddenly went underwater. The…
Our London home away from home
Nice to see that the Canadian High Commission in London has apparently joined the Unique Home Stays organization and is now hosting Canadians who are on vacation in England.When we…
James Gandolfini
The Sopranos Final Scene – YouTube: ““ “Try and remember the times that were good.”I wonder if it was like this for him? He will be missed.
The smear is backfiring
Today’s least surprising news story is that the nursing home foundation which sandbagged Justin Trudeau last week by complaining about how he owed them $20,000 has close ties to the…
Well, that was ugly
Unrepentant to the end, Quebec soccer is still trying to save face by blaming their racist turban ban on FIFA’s supposed “ambiguities” — the rules of soccer, you know, are…
Wait for it
Has anyone else been following xkcd: Time?This xkcd cartoon has been changing by one frame an hour since the end of March, and has now posted more than 2000 pictures…
Security state? Or just a fantasy state?
Edward Snowdon thinks of himself as a spy. But Gene Hackman he ain’t.Surely the United States of America wasn’t ever actually being “protected” by 29-year-old guy who dropped out of…
Solidarity
What a great story. A Quebec under-14 soccer team all wore turbans at their big game on Saturday to protest the injustice of the Quebec Soccer Federation ban on turbans.…
One question
I have one question about the new Ottawa RedBlacks: what are the team colours going to be?Actually, I have two questions — what the heck is a RedBlack anyway?I prefer…
Today in tweets
I was going to make an NSA Twitter joke but they just called & told me they’d heard it already— Thers (@Thers) June 7, 2013 #NSACalledToTellMe that I left my…
I guess the Harper Cons just cannot be trusted with money
What’s the deal with the Harper Cons these days and their attitude toward Canadian law? Not to mention how incompetent are they at handling money.The two Con MPs are describing…
Just shut up, that’s why
Well, we certainly know now where RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson stands on bullying and harassment in the workplace “I can’t be continuously defending against outlandish claims as if they were…
Would you tune in to a TV show called Bayou Eskimos?
A PBS station in New York is running a series of subway posters to satirize all of the bizarre reality TV shows on the air lately.Oh, well, at least Honey…
The gift that keeps on giving
The Duff Scandal is getting more hilarious every day.Now we find out that Duffy thought he should be appointed to Cabinet.And what selfless contribution to the Canadian public did Duffy…
Desperate but not stupid
Using Montreal Simon’s great phrase, Stephen Harper is “crazy desperate” about deflecting media attention from Duffy. He is flinging mud wildly against the Liberals (Tony Merchant’s off-shore account) and the…