Hard news and straight talk (snerk)
Employees of Canada’s unofficial state broadcaster keep scraping away, but the barrel appears to be bottomless. StuntTV has it all: production values not worthy of high-school theatre, the unfunny Ezra…
Dr.Dawg
Fisking Komen’s non-apology apology
Source: We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives. “We misspoke ourselves. Let us…
Some caterpillars
…will never become butterflies. Goodbye, Progress Rail, and good riddance. May labour uprisings follow you wherever you crawl.
Shoot for the cure
Only in America. Yet another reason to give the Komen franchisers a wide berth. Because breast cancer is too important, too real and too lethal to be so shamefully (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/292206/20120202/planned-parenthood-susan-komen-penn-state.htm)…
The Pantsafire Chronicles: What kind of fakery is this?
Citizengate has developed more twists and turns over the day than the backstreets of Marrakesh. While Jason Kenney’s office and SunTV hasten to cover their pale and sweaty butts, others…
Open season
Canadian Muslims—be warned. You are being watched, and even ordinary turns of phrase will land any one of you in jail. I nearly blew up when I read this. Whoops.…
"And yet, it moves"
“Eppur si muove,” Galileo is reputed to have grumbled sotto voce as he formally recanted his claim that the earth orbited the sun instead of the other way around. He…
Faux News North fakes it
Who’s the “state broadcaster” now? Unable to pull enough new Canadians away from their gainful employment to take a citizenship oath for a video clip, the folks at SunTV enlisted…
Hacked neo-Nazi websites reveal Canadian connections – British Columbia – CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/02/01/bc-canadian-nazis-exposed.html
Boycott the Komen Foundation for the cure
…for cowardice, anti-choice capitulation—and lawfare against other charities. How many donors know that their money—a million smackers a year—is being used to persecute other charities that have dared to use…
Sen. Boisvenu’s modest proposal
And so the first trial balloon on the restoration of capital punishment is sent aloft, to jostle with the anti-abortion blimps. As it turns out, there’s nothing new under the…
Of big brothers and little birds
Yup, they’re watching, and we’d just better get used to it. Item: A British couple hoping to holiday in Los Angeles was seized at the airport and incarcerated overnight, then…
Tales of the golden arches
A little latter-day nausea for those of us who used to be “lovin’ it.”
"Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"
That was Adolf Hitler in 1939, who had found a model for his own policies of mass extermination. He was explaining that the genocide of the Armenians would become, as…
Eastern Gateway
Want the skinny on the Northern Gateway pipeline? Check out this series of articles by Terry Glavin in the National Post. Canada sells the oil sands to China. Then complains…
On domestic assault, misogyny and xenophobia
The first-degree murder conviction of three members of the Shafia family brings the number of so-called “honour killings” in Canada to 16 since 2002. It would seem that most of…
Oakland: violent cop identified
Last evening the Oakland, CA police used high levels of violence to break up a demonstration by members of #OccupyOakland. One officer, badge #119, threw a young, 100-lb, pregnant woman…
Margaret Somerville joins the Conservative war on women
Abortion as a sex selection technique is not much of an issue in Canada, but abortion re-criminalizers are grasping at any straw they can get these days, and the notion…
Shorter Father Raymond J. de Souza
“Atheist Christopher Hitchens was a nasty man who currently resides in Hell. Pedophile enabler Joe Paterno is now among the angels, and why did everyone pick on him?” If there…
Stupid conservatives
Literally. In fact the phrase appears to be tautological. There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to…