Brad Friedman has minor skirmish with phony ‘OUTLAW cowboy’. Hilarity ensues.
Reprinted from The Brad Blog:They make it so easy for us to mock them.
Jymn
Another step down the Conservative evolutionary scale. Sun runs homophobic McVety ad. Bonus Shaidle charm offensive.
Pic by Chris Wilson-Smith (@thechrisws)Conservatives have a very well defined hierarchy of idiocy. The National Post is about midway down the pack, excelling at Disingenuous, Lacks Moral Clarity and Will…
How the Conservative media works; Postmedia style
By Postmedia standards, the Vancouver Sun is fairly liberal, being the hippie brother to the redneck trash, the Vancouver Province, both being owned by Postmedia. But it's still Postmedia. In…
New BC Place dazzles, disappoints, promises bigger things. Roof opens quickly, too!
Well, I was wrong; it wasn't a disaster. The roof opened like a charm, very quickly too. Unfortunately for the Lions, the CFL plays its games at night. While it…
National Post and free speech
I find it not a little humorous that the National Post is back pedalling furiously over their publishing Charles McVety’s repulsive homophobic ad. Even more humorous is the Post’s high-minded…
Outasite! Supreme Court bludgeons Con ideology with reality.
One of the few benefits of not having any political power is that you get to sit back and watch the majority power fall all over its own ideology and…
Fox News whines that George Bush isn’t getting credit for assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki
This is one time Fox News can keep the credit for George Bush. After all, they tried this with the capture of Saddam.Right wingers cannot handle anyone getting credit except…
Outasite! Supreme Court bludgeons Con ideology with reality.
One of the few benefits of not having any political power is that you get to sit back and watch the majority power fall all over its own ideology and…
National Post and free speech
I find it not a little humorous that the National Post is backpedalling furiously over their publishing Charles McVety's repulsive homophobic ad. Even more humorous is the Post's high-minded explanation…
Time for another Slutwalk, this time in Brooklyn
In Saudi Arabia, the religious police regularly patrol the country for citizens who may be flaunting the Kingdom’s version of Islam, especially when it pertains to women exposing too much…
Obama kills American. Republicans applaud this most Republican of all Democratic presidents.
Progressives none too happy with the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki. But Republicans like raging Islamophobe Steve King are tickled pink. Republicans are applauding Obama for once. One holdout is Ron…
The Vancouver Club, Dick Cheney and pedophilia: a tale of perversion, politics and privilege
UPDATE: Anthony J. Hall, from the Comments at Let Freedom Rain: I attempt to put the whole Vancouver Club/Jack Cram/pedophilia/BC Indian title scandal in broader context in chapter 8 of…
Occupy Wall Street going mainstream?
Occupy Wall Street protests have garnered very little media attention, especially the television kind. Yes, there’s been the usual ’dirty fucking hippies’ smirking from the New York Times and the…
Occupy Wall Street going mainstream?
Occupy Wall Street protests have garnered very little media attention, especially the television kind. Yes, there's been the usual 'dirty fucking hippies' smirking from the New York Times and the…
"This doesn’t look like it was anything more than a lapse in judgment."
This has nothing to do with 'judgement' but with racism. Pure and simple.London police nab the man who threw the banana peel at Philadelphia Flyer Wayne Simmonds. He was charged…
Tea Party in Ontario? Big deal, it’s been bubbling under the surface in BC for ages.
The BC Conservative party gets a big hug from the Vancouver Sun but it cannot escape the perception that it is an outdated evangelical soup of wingnuts. I guess it…
Cheney speech: c’mon Calgary, you can do better than this
Only about 50 protesters showed up to Cheney's Calgary speech, a dismal showing compared to the far more sizeable crowd at his Vancouver speech the night before. I realize Calgary…
Mounties try to strong arm BC
I say, screw 'em. If you're a law enforcement agency and you try to 'blackmail' a province, you can go fuck yourself.Hardball federal negotiators have demanded that B.C. accept Ottawa’s…
"Warfare by any other means"
Isn't this what fascists do?Queen’s University Professor Ned Franks used the term on Tuesday after Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) imposed closure on its controversial 100-page omnibus crime…