Mocha in Muskoka – Juno, here we come!
Sing the New Year in with Jim Bobby. Happy 2012, y’all!
Dr.Dawg
Can it happen here?
A serious question, not necessarily answered in the affirmative, although I’m leaning heavily that way. Two stories caught my eye this morning. The first was a bitter reminiscence of life…
Muslim on airplane!
A story you won’t hear from the Usual Suspects. In the grand scheme of things, of course, this anecdote is no more important than this one in assessing the realities…
Monkfights: A Cause For Concern
The last 2000 years or so, in microcosm. The 6th Century holy site is jointly administered by the Latin, Orthodox and Armenian churches, with each fiercely guarding their turf against…
The Pantsafire Chronicles: Diane Finley again
The hapless, incompetent and increasingly mendacious Minister of Human Resources has earned elevation in the Pantsafire Pantheon. Readers will recall that Diane Finley originally merited inclusion for blaming the staff…
Creeped out
Dred Tory is back with a bang. A full-throated rant, with links: perhaps our Dear Leader can at this point inspire only this from such a wordsmith, no less and…
The clothing wars
The battle for male supremacy over female bodies continues, this time in Israel. Never mind burqas and niqab, banned in several European countries, in Canada’s citizenship courts, and more or…
Merry Christmas, and to all a good night
Back to blogging after Christmas Day, its breakfast and its evening feast with the warmth of family and friends. I wish you all, dear readers, commenters and Tweeters, the same…
Christmas spirit and the Catholic Church
A California archbishop shuts down a Christmas service because gay-friendly ministers had been invited to speak. “Inappropriate for the season of Advent,” sniffed George Niederauer, the Archbishop of San Francisco.…
The Egyptian morass
Two excellent pieces on the current situation, with lessons for everyone. Thanassis Cambanis: Can persistent revolt eventually beget genuine revolution, like wind carving a valley through granite? I’m of two…
Abortion to be recriminalized
Time to wake up and smell the coffee, folks. The countdown towards recriminalization of abortion has already begun. Because the Harper government borrows its moves from US far-right playbooks—voter suppression,…
Free speech, Brian Lilley style
Observe. Free speech is only for conservo-speech. Otherwise, shut off the mic (@6:17). What an unspeakable hypocrite and coward Brian Lilley is. Literally, it seems.
The laughing legislator
Once again, gaze upon the face of the eternal bourgeois, at home in his greasy skin and in the world that others labour to provide for him. As was the…
Kim, Kim, Kim…
Il-sung is still served under glass, Now Jong-il’s dead— All things must pass The people weep, As they do each day Future and past One shade of grey: Anything new…
Canada’s new Liberals (*snicker*)
As some readers may remember, I covered the Conservative Convention in 2008 and the Liberal Convention in 2009. The upcoming Liberal Convention plans to charge bloggers $1,100 to attend. We…
The Stephen Harper Party’s dirty tricks
The Conservative Party of Canada has been caught spitting on democracy yet again. This time it’s voter suppression in Kitchener-Conestoga—and some odd goings-on elsewhere: On May 2, Elections Canada reported…
Bananarama
It’s a mild December, but Hell appears to have frozen over. I agree with Ezra Levant. Well, sort of. I’m fed up to my hair roots with his “ethical oil”…
The Mounties fail to get their man
…but running in abused women is another story: In the two resolved complaints the RCMP acknowledged the police officers failed to follow several areas the Violence In Relationships (VIR) Violence…
Enemies of the people: CFIA’s war on science
The folks in charge of making sure your food is safe to eat are damping down scientific research to accommodate Stephen Harper’s PR priorities. And the Canadian Food Inspection Agency…
Merle Haggard
Workers caught in terrible traps, encouraged to choose the wrong enemies. In spite of myself, I like this guy, and I think I need to publish this corrective to my…