An Invitation To The Dance Party
What dance party is that, you ask? Why, the one being hosted by the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party whose name, it is rumoured, is in the process…
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Climate Change: Bill Nye Uses Science, The Right Wing Relies On Ideology
You decide who is right: Recommend this Post
Another Provincial Concern
Aware of my interest in politics, my friend Gary sent me an email this morning:I read a comment in the National Post and it made me think of the label…
Andrea Horwath: Labour’s Fair-Weather Friend?
In light of her refusal to say much about anything, a political disease she may have caught from her federal cousins, Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath is being viewed increasingly…
The Idiot Cull
I nominate the late James Coot, a Middleboro Kentucky preacher, for a 2014 Darwin Award. Snake-handling star of ‘Snake Salvation’ reality show dies from snake bite (via Raw Story )…
To Be Young, Gifted, And Gay – Part Two
While I wholeheartedly agree that no one has the right to pry into a person’s sexual orientation (except in cases of arrant hypocrisy), I still feel such admiration for and…
And Speaking Of Stupidity….
Bill Nye and Bill Maher offer an entertaining and informative analysis of this growing phenomenon: Recommend this Post
An Epidemic of Stupidity
Starting with Tim Hudak and then progressing stateside, this post will attempt to merely display the range of prodigious stupidity that North America seems to be cursed with. First, to…
Crazed Evangelicals: Donny Reagan Preaches His Racial Hatred To The Like-Minded
It is this kind of crap that gives religion a bad name. I lasted about four minutes watching Brother Donny Reagan’s vomitus. Recommend this Post
Shoulder Shrug
Like many of the commentators and bloggers whom I read, I regularly feel a deep frustration over the passivity of people. No matter what the problem, be it political, social,…
An Excellent Editorial About Michael Sam
Texas newsman Dale Hansen has some words about “the best defensive player in college football’s best conference” saying he’s gay before the NFL draft… Recommend this Post
Elizabeth May On The Harper Contempt For Democracy Act
If you are like me, you may prefer reading the transcript to viewing the video of Elizabeth May’s eloquent condemnation of the odious ‘Fair’ Elections Act. In any event, both…
A Troubled Canadian’s Mind
I have been a little under the weather the last two days, an illness that curiously began shortly after I had an unsettling thought about the federal budget. (I am…
Heather Mallick And The Climate Of Fear
Toronto Star columnist Heather Mallick has a lacerating assessment this morning of the political landscape we now inhabit, thanks to the machinations of the Harper cabal. Owen, over at Norther…
An Initial Reaction To The Budget
To paraphrase the Soup Nazi, young people, “No job for you!” This message brought to you by the Harper government, not hard at work for you. H/t PressProgress Recommend this…
Ann Coulter’s ‘Thoughts’ On Marijuana
The always charming Ms Coulter equates marijuana with ‘retard pills.’ One can only assume she comes by her own mental deficiencies naturally. Ann Coulter: Obama acts like he’s from Kenya…
Conservative MP Blaine Calkins’ Bromance
Either the Alberta Conservative MP has a thing for the late Charlton Heston or he has a love of a darker kind. Recommend this Post
Economic Fact Check
Contrary to what our self-described economist Prime Minister would have us believe, the jobs that are being created in Canada today are but a pale echo of what once existed.…
To Be Young, Gifted, And Gay
I am in awe of this kind of courage, and it is one of the reasons I am never quite wiling to give up on humanity. Despite the progress that…