The war on Thanksgiving
Butterball® is in trouble with the nutbar Right. The following, I swear, was not lifted from The Onion: his Thanksgiving, fight for your freedom. Find a non-halal, non-Butterball turkey to…
Dr.Dawg
The winter of the #Occupy movement
Camp after camp has now fallen across Canada as the police have moved in, usually at night, to chase Occupiers out of public spaces. The ritual of order restoration has…
The Harperian base: QOTW
“They tend to be anti-intellectual, anti-science and with little interest in debating the evidence or listening to expert opinion. Many simply want people who do bad things to be severely…
Small world
Quiz time: Who said “The politicizing of universities – and in particular, of students – represents participation in the political process that exceeds the bounds of logic”? Does the name…
Contempt
The National Post’s John Ivison tells it like it is today—sort of: Political scientist Donald Savoie has long tracked the draining of power toward the centre – first from Parliament…
Police state follies: the G20 and judicial abuse
A shabby tale of persecution of Canadian dissidents will likely come to an end in a Toronto courtroom today—but not to a conclusion. Two years after the police riot during…
Lieutenant John Pike’s blog!
Read it, or you’ll be pepper sprayed until your eyes bleed! UPDATE: A meme is born.
On conservative madness
Conservatism, once again, is shown to be less a politics than a diagnosis. Werner Patels appears to be off his meds. Junior chickenhawk Adrian MacNair spares us, at least, his…
Fascism goes to college: 2
In which a distinguished American poet, sceptical of reports that police were beating students at Berkeley, checks out the scene—and gets beaten himself. It can happen here.
On media ambushes and faking the news
The Great Empty Tent Scandal was a hoax—or, if one is inclined to be charitable, an incompetent use of inadequate equipment. But I don’t feel very charitable this morning. Ezra…
Attawapiskat in the news again
The tiny Northern Ontario Aboriginal community of Attawapiskat, the site of a long struggle to obtain an elementary school for local children, is facing a crisis. How many other Aboriginal…
Dr. Katehi and Mr. Pike
The face of the brute and, above, of the 1% for whom he does his dirty work. Different facets of the same reality. Co-dependent. Symbiotic. The wall of silence encountered…
Xian love, Ch.376
Wish I could say I was shocked, but it seems to go with the territory. Hope they throw the Book at these disgusting perps.
Conservatives set to legalize hate speech
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has signalled the government’s intentions to support a private member’s bill from backbench Alberta MP Brian Storseth that will repeal Sn. 13 of the Canadian Human…
US: fascism goes to college
Meet Lieutenant John Pike, above. His telephone number is 530-752-3989. His email is japikeiii@ucdavis.edu. Don’t hold back—Pat Martin this pig. When University of California at Davis students protest nonviolently on…
The elusive Patrick Ross
As regular readers know, inept Con writer Patrick Ross, owner of a self-descriptive blogsite, has been eluding justice for a while, in the form of an $85,000 defamation judgement (plus…
A hard lesson from India for the #Occupants
“I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.”—American financier Jay Gould Organizing the poor has its considerable risks, as a community organizer in India learned…
Warp speed
Faster-than-light neutrinos have been confirmed in a second experiment. There will be many more experiments to eliminate potential sources of error, such as the placement of the two clocks in…
Pat Martin FTW!
I saw Martin’s Tweet as it appeared, and reTweeted it right away. You know the one—that colourful 138-character denunciation of the Harper regime’s sixth closure motion in 33 days. Some…
Jason Kenney and the dusky of hue
Once again, Jason Kenney displays one of his least endearing characteristics. Kenney has a problem with teh brownskins, and there is no length, it seems, to which he will not…