Southwest Airlines follies: "It’s a go!"
Southwest Airlines is the product of a true southern sensibility. Meaning there is little sense - or heart - in anything it does. It represents all that is ugly about…
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Marijuana’s Key Ingredient May Fight Alzheimer’s Disease
Never thought I’d link to a story from Fox News but this is some good shit. The active ingredient of marijuana could be considerably better at suppressing the abnormal clumping…
Tory Taber channels Sarah Palin. Profiles Candice Hoeppner as Joan of Arc of kaboom!
You can always trust Jane Taber to be the model of journalism. Modern journamalism, that is. You know, anonymous sources, cloying coverage of conservatism, condescending dismissals of everything else, Maureen…
Marijuana’s Key Ingredient May Fight Alzheimer’s Disease
Never thought I'd link to a story from Fox News but this is some good shit. The active ingredient of marijuana could be considerably better at suppressing the abnormal clumping…
New book: Harper had ties to Neo-Nazis
This is interesting but hardly surprising; it goes a long way to explaining how the Conservatives' modern followers are so extreme in their support of the party's authoritarian views, its…
US State Department permitted company with ties to TransCanada to conduct environmental impact study on KeystoneXL pipeline
In a stunning article today in the New York Times, the US State Department not only looked the other way but approved an environmental impact study of the Keystone XL…
Steve Jobs, LSD and Obama’s draconian drug policy
I did not know Steve Jobs had an affinity for LSD. I'll leave the debate whether it helped or hindered Jobs to another time. I can't see how it hurt.I'll…
I am a blogger. I am not a journalist.
I am a left-of-centre progressive. I do not pretend to be neutral. I am a blogger. I am not a journalist. I do not take money under the table from…
Harper Jets snub Harper
Looks like the the new NHL franchise in Winnipeg may not be as friendly to its adoptive 'owner' and his political party as one would think. The club, dubbed the…
Canada cannot just change its name like the tar sands did
With the TransCanada debacle now creeping into the headlines, almost exclusively because of the US protests, the word 'Canada' is being batted around like a football. It's being kicked and…
I am a blogger. I am not a journalist.
I am a left-of-centre progressive. I do not pretend to be neutral. I am a blogger. I am not a journalist.I do not take money under the table from political…
‘Senile old uncle’ Don Cherry under fire from ex-NHL enforcers
Looks like it's talk back to the pompous CBC ass day.Don Cherry, that idiot old fart of the archaic Hockey Night in Canada and hero to Conservatives, is getting his…
CBC liberal? Really? Chris Hedges trashes Kevin O’Leary’s audition for Sun News.
Kevin O’Leary channels Krista Erickson. This time guest bites back. This is sweet. Chris Hedges exposes Kevin O’Leary’s snotty, condescending name calling during an interview on CBC’s Lang & O’Leary…
CBC liberal? Really? Chris Hedges trashes Kevin O’Leary.
O'Leary shocked by 'nutbar' fighting backThis is sweet. Chris Hedges exposes Kevin O'Leary's snotty, condescending name calling during an interview on CBC's Lang & O'Leary Exchange. Amanda Lang tries in…
Just desserts. Fox reporters beaten by cops at Occupy Wall Street.
It's ironic dontcha think that Murdoch employees, whose job it is to demean the protesters, were beaten and maced by police themselves?Gateway Pundit may not address this particular incident but…
Scott Brown’s Macaca moment?
When Elizabeth Warren made a joke differentiating herself from her opponent during her debate with Republican Scott Brown about his Cosmo spread, stating "I kept my clothes on", that was…
96-year-old Tennessean woman denied voting rights
Why? Because she can't locate the new paperwork required to vote as a result of Republican voter suppression tactics.Why, really? She's African American.Dorothy Cooper, who worked her whole life as…
New Facebook page re: BC Place/Terry Fox: "Take the Giant Screen Down Now"
I wrote the other day about the massive television screen outside BC Place, dwarfing Terry Fox Plaza. Not only is the screen an eyesore and a blast of light into…
RIP Steve Jobs
Whatever your thoughts about Jobs, his company Apple or the products he shepherded into existence, Jobs was an innovator and a visionary. His kind is getting rarer and rarer to…
Bummer. Palin not runnin’ for president.
What could have been one of the most amusing, mock-worthy gaggle of candidates in the history of the United States is now one nutter short. Sarah Palin announces she will…