What’s in a Lie?
I, for one, was always a little (should I say, morbidly) curious exactly what lengths Stephen Harper would go in his blatant denial of inconvenient facts when they became clear.…
Kirby Evans
The Sinking Ship of Stephen Harper. .
I recently took a break from reading for research purposes to read a couple of novels. In the past couple of days I read the novel V. by the strange…
THIS IS THE SMOKING GUN OF THE DUFFY AFFAIR FOLKS. . . .
I just wanted to make a short post today to point out a problem in logic that no one seems to be talking about. The opposition leaders have been rightly…
Harper on his Disgraced associates. . . . Please add more.
Stephen Harper has a long history of associating himself with people who turn out to be criminals or movers and shakers in a culture of corruption. Here are a few…
How do you Cover a Cover-up?
Anyone who has watched events unfolding in Ottawa this weeks (and let’s face it, anyone who is interested in the future of the country has been watching with keen interest),…
Elections near but Basic Problems persist. . . .
Anyone who vaguely pays attention to politics understands that as a system of government, democracy is seriously struggling. The promises of democracy, promises that grew out of the late 19th…
Harper and the Big Fat Senate Lie. . .
I remember once reading an amusing theory about the evolution of an idea. I think it came from Hazel Barnes introduction Jean-Paul Sartre’s Search for a Method. However, not having…
Shad and Kanye West . . . .
Yesterday Shad (CBC radio personality) regaled us with a defense of rapper Kanye West. (I find it amazing that anyone has to come to the defense of a person worth…
The Conservative Party of Canada . . . . (Really??)
Let me admit with complete honesty that the Conservative Party certainly didn’t turn out quite like I thought it would. I am as far from Conservative as one can be…
The Gradual Wake-Up
I believe that we are very slowly awakening from a terrible economic and political nightmare. That nightmare is neo-liberalism. For forty years now the global population has been fed a…
Minimum Wage and the Laughable National Post. . .
The National Post Editorial of June 30th which argues that the performance of Rachel Notley in Alberta is a good reason not to vote for the NDP in October is…
On Hope and Fear in the run up to the Elections. . .
Despite wanting to turn off recent political events, an urge that is motivated by a depressed feeling of helplessness and hopelessness, I have kept a careful watch on things over…
Del Mastro and the Milgram Experiment. . .
Former Liberal MP Glen Pearson had an article on the Huffington Post yesterday entitled “Del Mastro isn’t the Problem, Politics Is,” in which he argues that Del Mastro is essentially…
Del Mastro – Poster Boy of Harper Corruption. . .
Before today I think that my very favourite moment in the ten years of the Harper disaster was the moment that Dean Del Mastro commented on his conviction for electoral…
Running on Fumes and the Problems of Leadership. . .
As the Harper government sputters toward the fall election, a political machine that seems to be running on fumes alone, the issue of leadership is continually arising amongst the MSM…
Rachel Dolezal and the Strange Dilemma. . .
Like Dr. Dawg, I am troubled by the entire incident of Rachel Dolezal. Obviously, something about the whole thing rubs us all the wrong way. But it is difficult to…
The Hypocrisy Hall of Fame. . .
Ok, ok, I don’t blog that much anymore. I have lots of irons in the fire, so to speak. I mean, a lot of us have grown weary of the…
One revelation is already clear. . . .
I am not going to spend a lot of time blogging about the Duffy trial. It is already proving interesting and at the moment it promises to be a watershed…
Struggling with the Big Dilemmas. . . .
Just before Christmas I stopped painting and have not really been able to go back to it. Perhaps it is something like a midlife crisis, I don’t know, but over…
"How did we get here?" . . I hate to have to ask. . .
“How did we get here?” This is the timeless question of people who find themselves in a country (or world) being enveloped by the politics of hate, fear, militarism, jingoism,…