Friday night despair
Or, time to go to bed early. The world is too much with me, and it’s an insane, evil, hallucinatory one, like a bad acid trip. Item: American parents pimp…
Dr.Dawg
Long live death!
The quote is from Spanish fascist José Millán-Astray y Terreros. Somehow it seems to fit. The grotesque, ugly face of…conservaticism. ...
UPDATE: Baglow v. Roger Smith aka "Peter O’Donnell," Connie Fournier and Mark Fournier
Readers may remember this bit of business. Notice of Appeal has today been filed with the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Comments are welcome, but please take note that I…
State/terrorism
Consider me terrorized. Stephen Harper, choosing his time well, will reinstate special powers for the police to fight something called “Islamicism”—mere Islamism apparently being no longer scary enough. One police…
NDP leadership: Paul Dewar’s chops
When it comes to filling the gigantic shoes of Jack Layton, columnist Lawrence Martin clearly prefers a bare-knuckle scrapper: this morning he came out strongly for Thomas Mulcair. What many…
Open racism from Tim Hudak
Words almost fail. A proposed Liberal tax credit to encourage businesses to give new immigrants a leg up in the Ontario economy “doesn’t fit the values of Ontario families.” So…
Flash mobs in Aotearoa
How they do “rāhui rangitahi” in New Zealand (my neologism, with a suggestion from twitterer @hinemoana, so aroha mai, apologies, to te tangata whenua!). Worth a rātaki (blogpost), nē? ...
Conservatives: writing off Quebec
An excellent column today by veteran journo Chantal Hébert. She touches all the bases, except our PM’s Manichaean mentality. Harper’s sheer petulance is, in any case, truly the stuff of…
No votes for the poor
Emboldened by America’s drift to the right, a conservative columnist says in plain language what a heck of his political co-religionists likely think. Registering to vote is like handing out…
Anti-Semitism
If I might juxtapose: Criticism of Israel for its treatment of Palestinians: anti-Semitic. Condemning Jewish orphans to die in the Holocaust…conservative. Note the cool Celtic cross on Whitton’s gravestone: look…
For those who think male privilege doesn’t exist
Here is a site worth bookmarking, and here is a story worth reading. And this one, too. And here’s the libertarian view of choice on abortion, a fundamental right that…
The PM’s new flak: francophobia and selective amnesia
What a perfect gesture from a party that has clearly decided to write off newly-orange Quebec. I had thought all the “royal” foofaraw a few weeks past was merely insensitive,…
#DameEzra
Separated at birth? Why the Twitterverse is worth preserving....
Laws of defamation suspended for the blogosphere
In a precedent-setting decision, a court has ruled against me in my lawsuit against Free Dominion owners Connie and Mark Fournier, and Peter O’Donnell, aka Roger Smith. A motion to…
Premeditated merger
Quite the Twittering last evening about a proposed merger between the NDP (otherwise known as Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition) and a rump called the Liberal Party of Canada. It’s in…
Defamation and worse: the case for busting Internet anonymity
Is there a right to Internet anonymity? Once I was almost persuaded. Now I believe there is not, and should not, be any such “right.” I would certainly argue for…
Flying while Black in America
The terrorists have won. ...
Shorter Christie Blatchford
“All I did was spit on Jack Layton’s grave and now some people are (gasp) being uncivil!” Once again a vicious right-winger plays the victim card when what she sends…
Open season on anonymous defamers
The dreadful Fournier couple, owners of the far-right website Free Dominion, have lost another battle—the final one—to preserve the anonymity of two commenters who defamed anti-Nazi stalwart Richard Warman. Reading…