So It Has Come To This
From xkcd: Works for me.
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Conservatives on the ethics committee: Enough chatter about Harper stealing the election! We need to talk about how the Liberals hurt Vic Toews’ delicate fee-fees.
False equivalency
No, Canadian media, embarrassing a minister isn’t just the same as trying to suppress voter turnout. Montreal Simon gets it: while Vikileaks may have embarrassed Toews, it was not illegal,…
Oscar chat
I thought the show went OK this year but the crowd didn’t seem to be all that excited about most of the winners except Meryl Streep and Christopher Plummer.I DO…
Now HERE’s a twitter-worthy comment!
Balloon Juice did a bit about the recent going’s on here in the Great White North, and got a lot of comments from Canadians. Here’s a priceless one about our…
Great line of the day
Matt Tabbi on the Republican Presidential Race –Conservative Chickens Come Home to Roost: This current race for the presidential nomination has therefore devolved into a kind of Freudian Agatha Christie…
Twitter fail
I recently put a twitter widget on my page to show my twitters — then nobody was commenting on my posts and I couldn’t figure out why until Saskboy managed…
Contempt
As we learn more about the robocall scandal, the magnitude gets bigger and bigger, and the contempt of the Harper Conservatives for the Canadian people becomes more and more obvious.…
Everyone does it? No they don’t
Here we go again. The Harper Conservatives get nailed for their dirty tricks and ratfucking and all of a sudden “everybody” does it and “everyone” has to clean up their…
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MacKay’s office got the RCAF to dig up dirt on the opposition: This will be so much easier when C-30 passes and we can just troll through their emails any…
Great post of the day
Tom and Lorenzo talk about last night’s Glee and how the “it gets better” approach to gay teen suicides is well-meaning but flawed: The way for the creative community (and…
The other shoe just dropped
Step one — Scare everyone about how the Canadian government isn’t going to provide enough pension income.Step two — Create a new financial product called Pooled Registered Pension Plans that…
Blue meanies
They’re nothing but a bunch of blue meanies.The Harper Conservatives are bound and determined to make Walmart greeters, drugstore cashiers, and cleaning ladies work for an extra two years. Now…
Thank you, Lorne Calvert
Thanks for the Family Day holiday — we really enjoyed it.
Money doesn’t care where it comes from
Kthug writes about what is going on with the European economy: Look, I understand why influential people are reluctant to admit that policy ideas they thought reflected deep wisdom actually…
The stupid, it burns
Who is this incredibly stupid man? …his understanding of the bill is that police can only request information from the ISPs where they are conducting “a specific criminal investigation.”But Section…
And how stupid do they think we are?
I know, I know, but look at this: At 10 am, the bill to allow warrentless electronic snooping by police is titled “Lawful Access Act”; at 11:17 am, the bill…
Who do they think they are?
Paraphrasing Catherine O’Hara’s memorable Beetlejuice line, the Harper Cons are going insane and they are taking us with them.A question about expanding government surveillance powers, and Vic Toews responds: “He…
Just say no
The Wall Street Journal is just being silly when it continues to whine about the birth control flap: The White House wants to impose its birth-control ideology on all Americans,…
Whitney Houston dies
What a shock, she was only 48. Other great songs.