Get it – Got it – Good
So let me make sure I have this straight. Even though Nigel Wright did give Mike Duffy $90,000 to pay off his Senate debt, and even though it is illegal…
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Told ya so!
When Julian Fantino was first appointed to the Veterans Affairs post — eleven months ago! — most of us progressives agreed that this was a disastrous decision by Harper.Sure ’nuff…
Try sincerity, for a change
The Harper Cons must be wondering, what do we have to do to satisfy these guys?After revealing the inadequate jury-rigged process which lead up to the Nadon appointment, now the…
Fixing the TFWP? Fuhgeddaboudit
Tasha Kheiridin at iPolitics knows how to fix the TFWP. The only problem is, the Harper Cons are too incompetent to do what she suggests: Solutions to the abuse of…
#YesAllWomen is for us all
The power of Twitter and of its 140-character stories is now clear to me for the first time — the #YesAllWomen hashtag Here are some examples of why it is…
Today is Towel Day
Towel Day – Celebrating the life and work of Douglas Adams: A towel, says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great…
Blazing Saddles is 40 years old!
Mel Brooks on ‘Blazing Saddles’ at 40, Richard Pryor’s Genius, and Keeping His Edge at 87 – The Moviefone Blog: All the executives at Warner Bros. had seen the movie.…
How to get rich
So I noticed there are now more than 13,000 books on Amazon about how to make money by investing. It made me recall the singularly priceless piece of investment advice…
This is why we can’t permit another abortion law in this country
Because when politicians get the chance, they will spend endless time passing more and more ridiculous and picayune anti-choice laws.Like this one in Missouri last week: requiring a woman to…
Fun for the weekend
From io9 – This animated short is the best 10-second adventure you’ll take today:
It’s Jump-the-shark season on TV
As the season finales appear day by day, we see more and more TV shows that end by some lead character jumping the shark.Remember how pissed off everyone was when…
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
It was May 13, 1940 that Winston Churchill made his first speech to the Commons as Prime Minister, the “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat” speech: ““ You ask what is…
Great tweet of the day
But if you think an open debate about reasonable limits on abortion is the pro-life end goal, I’ve got a chocolate teapot to sell you — Lauren DH (@roseneath_rd) May…
I am Canadianized!
In other parts of the continent, its called “uppity”. But I like calling it “Canadianized” — asking for an employer to treat you like a fellow human being instead of…
Lost boys
Stephen Harper has lost Andrew Coyne: It is one thing to savage a political opponent or beat up on a distinguished civil servant. But to accuse the nation’s highest judge…
Now the Harper PMO thinks it can get rid of McLaughlin?
You can see where this is heading.The Harper Cons have rid themselves of dozens of principled civil servants over the last eight years.Now they think they’ve found a way to…
Update on our weather
Here comes the sun
What to do if you are attacked by a banana
Throwing a banana a Barcelona soccer player has a familiar ring, doesn’t it.He ate the banana, thus disarming his attacker!
Obama calls out racism without trashing the racists
Obama is truly one of the greatests Presidents the United States has ever had.Racism is such a deep part of the American character and experience, I have sometimes despaired that…