What’s that smell?
Everything Rupert Murdoch touches turns into sh*t:the Journal had been channelling money through European companies in order to secretly buy thousands of copies of its own paper at a knock-down…
CathiefromCanada
Lese-majeste
The Globe and Mail reports on the implications of the Insite decision : The Insite ruling forged a new means to strike down laws if there is scientific or statistical…
Wonders of science
Purina in Austria has made a dog-food commercial for dogs. And it appears to work:
Oh how I wish he’d go away
Don Cherry used to be interesting because he knew a lot about hockey. But in the last few years the game has moved beyond him. He can't keep up anymore.And…
This is why people are so mad
from #Occupy Rochester
Ballad of Gordon
RossK is writing a series of posts called Here's to the State of the Golden Era, summing up the legacy of Gordon Campbell. Makes me embarrassed to be a Liberal.
Creepy
Twitters about Christy Clark's v-neck, jokes about Elizabeth Warren's appearance, comparing Rathika Sitsabaiesan's cleavage photos, amazement that Alberta conservatives would elect a female leader -- did I wake up in…
Never give up, never surrender
Against all odds, facing terrible polls just a few weeks ago, Ontario Liberals win!The lesson is, never give up, never surrender.
Shoot the messenger
CBC reports that Conservative MPs are deciding not to investigate all the recent Auditor-General reports about government mismanagement and malfeasance.Well, I guess that explains why the Cons are trying to…
The grapes of wrath
...and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for…
There are limits
As enjoyable as it is to watch the media ferret out scandals about egotistical ministers jetting around on military planes to attend lobster dinners, I think we've maxed out this…
Let them eat cake
Montreal Simon writes about the champagne drinkers on the balcony watching the #OccupyWallSt protests below:Whatever else these protests are achieving, they are drawing a line between THEM and US.Today the…
We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore
I've heard people complain that they don't know what the #OccupyWallStreet protest is trying to achieve. But that's the beauty of it -- this is a protest without a goal,…
Oh, dear
Sounds like Stephen Harper had another terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week.
Sunday morning cartoons
From the Giving Up Smoking group at Daily Kos, some Far Sides including two I had never seen before:
Cargo cult conservatives
John Cole thinks conservatives have become cargo cults:How do you have a sensible policy debate with people who reject basic facts? It’s like trying to debate members of a cargo…
Pfffft!
Hubris already? Colour me unsurprised!MacKay:Defence Minister Peter MacKay used one of only three search-and-rescue helicopters available in Newfoundland to transport him from a vacation spot last year, CTV News has…
Margo Martindale wins an Emmy
For her brilliant role on a brilliant show Justified:
Exceptionalism
Sometimes I find if very hard to understand Americans. Why wouldn't they take this man's death seriously? Do they really believe that "you can just go to the emergency room"…
Your lying eyes
Alison has posted a brilliant Colbert Report video about the 9/ll conspiracy theory. Basically, we have always been at war with East Asia.