Sigh
The Harper Cons say its critical that Canada sell its oil to the States. And they’re also saying its critical that Canada sell its oil to Asia.No wonder the Harper…
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The countdown begins
Responding to yesterday’s firestorm, the Harper Cons are now saying all same-sex marriages performed in Canada are legal.Oh, and it’s all the Liberals fault.And they’re going to amend the law…
Shamed before the world
Show of hands, please. How many people expect that the Harper Conservatives will actually do anything to reverse the ridiculous legal opinion from their Justice department about the validity of…
Hey, here’s an idea…
Reading Ross K’s list of stuff the Harper Cons are doing to “celebrate” the War of 1812 gives me an idea.Maybe if the gay pride parades across the country promised…
Oh lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
Looking at photos from the Detroit auto show made me think of this song:and this one too:and:
Amazing
First place in the National Geographic photo contest. The photographer writes: Grand Prize Winner and Nature Winner – SPLASHING: This photo was taken when I was taking photos of other…
Concern trolls
The Harper Conservatives care so much about the Liberals that they are warning us how damaging it would be to elect Bob Rae as leader.Bless their hearts.Rae must be the…
More 2012
From Failblog: There’s not going to be an Apocalypse, now finish those TPS reports:
Priorities
You know what is truly stupid? In this story on how the feds replaced two artistically significant Canadian paintings with a routine portrait of the Queen just before Bill and…
Great line of the day
From the commenters to Sarah’s Please don’t throw me into the santorum: Santorum could easily come from behind.
New links
Some new links over on the right — I’m increasingly interested in longer reads, and so I collected a batch of sites that post lengthier and depthier articles. Plus Charles…
Great line of the day
The Gazetteer on the results of the Iowa Caucus: fully 75% of the Heartland’s GOP have now officially bought their tickets to take a ride on the crazy train.
2012 redux
xkcd noticed the Mayan connection as well:
The most popular song in the world
30 million views and counting. A great song in any language, but the mixture of English and Tamil shows something about where our worldwide culture is going and how quickly…
2012 at last
And I’m so not looking forward to this. No, its not 2012 itself that’s the problem — it’s all this Mayan calendar stuff that we’ll be hearing about all year…
Minimizing the horror
Remember how the right-wing had to mock and demonize the 9/11 widows to try to cover the Bush-Cheney malfeasance that lead to 9/11?Now that the Harper Cons have dismantled the…
What could possibly go wrong?
Another news story in the “What could possibly go wrong?” category — WHO “deeply concerned” by mutated birdflu research: The World Health Organization issued a stern warning on Friday to…
Shorter
Shorter Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission: Hearings? We don’t need no stinking hearings! Uranium is MUCH safer than liquid chlorine — what could possibly go wrong?
Christmas, Calvin-style
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