"I shouldn’t have showered with those kids"
As Gawker says about this quote from the Sandusky interview:Jerry, that is never not true.Now other victims are coming forward.Also, read Charles Pierce.
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Unbelievable
Another I Know You Are But What Am I moment from our Harper Conservatives -- Tories accuse opposition of hindering agenda: Mr. Van Loan notes that at the same time…
Great line of the day
Joe Scalzi gets to the heart of the Penn State scandal: ...one of the great stories of science fiction is “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” which was written…
Wreck of the Edmumd Fitzgerald
And Dr Grumpy has a few interesting facts about the wreck.
Stupid is as stupid does
Wasn't Rick Perry talking a couple of weeks ago about skipping more debates? Shoulda oughta done it.
The least of these
Montreal Simon has a wonderful post about the Occupy movement and the challenge of dealing with homelessness:I can't imagine an Occupy movement that wouldn't welcome the homeless and the marginalized,…
Disco can save lives! Who knew?
Physician comedian Ken Jeong's CPR video
You can’t always get what you want
Conservatives find out they can't use a private members bill to backdoor a retroactive tax on union members unless Parliament approves it first.Of course, they might still get Parliament to…
Great line of the day
Gene Weingarten writes about online journalism and how it makes its money with goofy cat pictures: “Who, What, When, Where and Why” has now been overtaken by “Huh?”
Would it be wrong to speculate?
Stephen Maher asks why nobody seems to be covering a possible influence-peddling scandal with connections to Harper and the PMO.Well, perhaps it's because even in his own story, he doesn't…
Halloween lights
Halloween is the only kids holiday, and in general I think adults should stay out of it and let the kids do it.But this light show is worth watching.
Ridiculous
Sorry, but regardless of what some professors say and what Quebecor thinks, Toronto mayor Rob Ford looked ridiculous running away from Mary Walsh.
Occupy the wind
From Occupy Saskatoon
Prediction
If the NDP select Brian Topp as their new leader, they will regret it.This man may be a nice guy and a comfortable supporter of the party status quo who…
Doesn’t anybody here know how to play this game?
Sorry for the lack of posts -- I had some surgery last week to take an old plate off my fibula, and have been recovering since.I'm still following the news…
Petty and pointless
How petty and mean are Canadian politics getting these days?The NDP accused Conservative labour minister Lisa Raitt and her chief of staff of getting free upgrades on Air Canada flights…
#OccupySaskatoon photos
I couldn't attend due to some surgery on Thursday, but these are from a Saskatoon attendee, Jay Hall's Twitter account - he says, This is what democracy looks like:
Choosing your side
I wrote several years ago that we usually don't get to choose our battles, we only get to choose our side.Now that the Occupy movement is spreading, and crackdowns are…
I have a right to live without hate
The Ottawa Citizen says: "The arguments of homophobes are easy enough to demolish in the open, using facts and sense. There's no need to drive such arguments underground. Expose them…
The Village has spoken
Ron Paul: Eyebrowgate, Or Just Kill Me Now:"we can’t have a man in the White House who wears fake eyebrows, and poor ones at that"Romney the dog-sh*tterer will win the…