Arrested for jogging while brown
The news story doesn’t mention the racial angle at all. So I guess Windsor police and prosecutors think its OK to arrest people for jogging while brown: As he was…
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Going Godwin
When the Harper Conservatives talked about a law and order agenda, I didn’t think they meant Godwin’s law about bizarre Nazi analogies too.But nobody escapes the Spanish Inquisition, nobody can…
Words I thought I would never say
I never thought I would actually be happy to see the PCs win in Alberta. But that’s just so much better than the alternative.Warren Kinsella called it: Wildrose has been…
Happy spring
A photo from the soap bubble festival today in St. Petersburg, Russia:
What a week!
It was one of those weeks at work. And the next ones are going to be worse! For me, the light at the end of the tunnel is shining on…
Its SUCH a mystery!
How mysterious — first nobody knows who “Pierre Poutine” could possibly be, even though he apparently made thousands of calls on election day from one disposable cell phone.Now nobody knows…
Shorter
Shorter Marcus Gee: Toronto City Council should help Rob Ford do something because otherwise voters won’t get any benefit from electing a buffoon as mayor. Dumbest stuff on wheels! We…
The melody lingers on
When I read this story I immediately thought of this song, I wonder why?
Goofy again!
Our dog Chillou is feeling a lot better these days!
Maybe its an age thing?
Or maybe not.I sometimes wonder whether people who were born in the Mulroney years or later can actually understand what it meant to Canadian women when, in 1988, the Supreme…
Darwin award runner-ups
Naked, drunken trio survive car wash ‘typhoon’ The trio had stripped down naked, loaded themselves into the cart, and selected either “typhoon” or “super typhoon” and tried to wash themselves…
Whiners and bitchers
They whine to the Harper Cons about how unfair it is that the CBC is a “state broadcaster” and then they bitch when the CBC competes with them to become…
Fiona’s story
I saw this last week on Brilliant at Breakfast and have to share it:
Risking it all
Its not often you see a politician, with an insouciant air and a sublime and total confidence in their ability to make their own luck, risk it all.Remember Hillary downing…
There but for the grace of God…
Emergency Blues analyzes the tragic, needless death of Anna Brown who died of in a St. Louis jail of a blood clot because doctors, nurses and police officers wouldn’t believe…
Its not you, its me
Sorry for the lack of posts over the last while — its not you, its me. I’ve been dealing with some stuff lately —First, iliotibial band syndrome complicated by a…
Great line of the day
From Boris, talking about the Trudeau-Barazeau dustup: Better watch that rematch Justin. Cons cheat when they can’t win honestly.
Great line of the day
John Cole writes about Rick Santorum’s plan to give a foreign policy speech at a jelly bean company as a tribute to Ronald Reagan: Those weren’t firecrackers you heard…it was…
Shared sacrifices
As the poorest people in Canada find themselves working at their lousy jobs for two extra years before they can qualify for $500 a month in Old Age Security, I…
Starbugs
Crushed bugs in my coffee? Eyuwwee-yuck!