My tweets about Duffy
Today’s Duffy news about the personal trainer and the makeup artist etc is just a gift to Twitter. Here’s my contribution: I guess Duffy needed a fitness instructor because he…
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The catfight meme
Digby wants Elizabeth Warren to run against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president because she wants to see: two intelligent, accomplished women stand for president and debate the…
Putin will be the loser
Yesterday Josh Marshall called the Malaysia Airlines disaster a game changer for Vladimir Putin: For months Putin has been playing with fire, making trouble and having it work mainly to…
Of course its political!
What’s the point of being in power if you can’t use government agencies to target and harass your enemies?It’s a time-honoured political tradition around the world, and now it’s come…
Zombie Lies
Bill Maher SLAMS Republican & Fox News Zombie Lies About Obama – YouTube: Via
Tweet of the day
she has a point pic.twitter.com/NKVAcIoxFo — (@Dory) July 12, 2014
Today’s cheap shots
Two cheap shots noted today:The Harper Cons wouldn’t approve a helicopter tour of the Manitoba flood zones by the Leader of the Opposition: Brig. Gen. Christian Juneau, commander of the…
Tweet of the day
CTV has a story titled Best Twitter reaction to Germany’s 5 goals against Brazil but they missed this one: This won’t be the first time that thousands of Germans will…
Defining moments in Canadian history
I think this is rather neat. Its from — Defining moments in Canadian history at a corporate blog for American Appraisal: here’s a fun infographic with little-known facts about Canada,…
Government by talk show yahoos
Christie Blatchford sums it up: The government brought in a cruel and inhumane program aimed squarely at the most vulnerable people in the country, sold it in the basest way…
Opus Dei comes to Washington
I think the anti-Obama Republicans who think the Hobby Lobby decision is a triumph are going to regret they ever heard of it.Because this legal decision and the others that…
Tennis, anyone?
I love watching tennis now that we have a big screen TV, and its been great to see Milos Raonic and Eugenie Bouchard advance to the semi-finals at Wimbledon. Two…
I’m retired!
I’ve been easing toward retirement for the past several months, but I have finally got everything completed and so I’m outta there! One of the things I hope I will…
#fail
Even Margaret Wente can’t quite figure out how to support Peter MacKay: I’m feeling kind of sorry for Peter MacKay. Nothing has been going right. He tried to appoint a…
How ya gonna keep ’em down on the farm after they’ve seen Paree?
Well, it appears that the Harper Cons may have actually fixed the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in many of the ways suggested by its critics.I know, I can’t believe it…
Outraged innocence and plaintive pathos
If you sensed a certain lack of enthusiasm from the Harper Cons about their own decision to approve the Northern Gateway pipeline, you were right. A day after accepting a…
The coming partition of Iraq
The War Nerd explains what is happening in Iraq — basically, the country is being violently partitioned into Sunni, Shiite and Kurd countries and there’s just about nothing anyone can…
Liberals win in Ontario, hooray!
I haven’t written any posts about the Ontario election campaign because I haven’t been following it very closely, but now that the results are in, here are some random observations.First,…
Happy dogs
There’s nothing like a happy dog. If you’re ever feeling a little down, just watch these videos: And of course the story of little Fiona:
Tweet of the day
June 7, 2014—the Greatest Comment in the History of the Internet has been posted. pic.twitter.com/rxkzXdq01c — Cosmo%20Catalano (@cosmocatalano) June 7, 2014 Here is a larger version of the comment, in…