RIP the Conservative Party of Canada
It appears the Truck Nuts are about to get a lesson in unintended consequences. While they roll around Ottawa, honking their air horns, demanding that Trudeau meet with them so…
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From the Land of Living Skies and dead brains
There’s dumb, and then there is People’s Party of Candidate racist anti-vax dumb. Notorious meathead Mark Friesen, despite having a case of COVID so severe that he had to be…
Let Freedumb reign (and send me all your money)!
Well, now this was inevitable: gofundme withholding $4.5 million in “protest convoy” funds raised through site until plan presented From the story: “We require that fundraisers be transparent about the…
if Townes can’t break your heart, nothing can – because you are a goddamned robot
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"Foxes say henhouse security ‘goes too far, ‘ call for cutbacks
I am so heartily sick of editing stories about how local business owners feel that the public health regulation “go to far” or that the plan to allow such “essential”…
Racism of the past
I watched a terrific old western tonight on Prime Video. The Unforgiven, starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn, directed by John Huston. And by terrific, I mean terrifically racist. The…
Accomodating the unvaccinated
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole thinks the 87 percent of Canadians who are vaccinated should make allowances and accomodate the tiny minority of selfish shitheads who refuse to be vaccinated. I…
Will this plague ever end?
Probably not. Not if people continue to be obsessed with complaining about personal inconvenience instead of looking at the bigger picture. I am so sick of reading stories in the…
Ho Ho Ho Hollywood
Christmas movies have been a thing since there have been movies. Some, like the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol starring Alastair Sim or Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life…
The Reichstag Fire of the War on Christmas?
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It’s only class war when it looks like we might hit back
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread” –Anatole France We are…
End times in British Columbia
It must seem like Armageddon has arrived on Canada’s west coast. After last week’s flooding and landslides, the province is now facing more heavy weather. If you can help, donate…
Moe ministers, Moe problems
Reading a story like this one https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/toddler-with-spina-bifida-another-lesson-for-health-minister naturally horrifies me as a parent and a human being — No parent should ever have to read the phrases “Blake’s most recent…
It’s not easy being blue
With apologies to Frank Oz, whom I’m sure smells good and has a light touch. This made me laugh a lot https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/cookie-monster-on-the-dole even more than this did The Rev. Paperboy…
And the horse you rode in on…and it’s mother, too
I’ve been off work for a a couple of days due to an eye injury (scratched cornea, if you -like my employer – feel you must know) but I will…
the woodshed 2021-11-16 02:31:00
TweetI’m watching Casablanca for the evlentry-seventh time and I’m reminded of the profondund conversation I had with my unilingual Japanese father-in-law in which we agreed that Ingrid Bergman in 1942…
the woodshed 2021-11-16 01:18:00
TweetI’ve been laid up with an eye injury for a few days and this has been stuck in my head. I’m not sure which version is better. But it is…
A collection of some of the greatest stories ever told
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the woodshed 2021-11-01 00:47:00
Well, it appears I’ve been kicked off Twitter, so I guess it’s goodbye micro-blogging and hello again macro blogging — or as we used to call it just blogging. The…
what is an education for?
I’m a big fan of Larry Wilmore and the Nightly Show, but tonight they totally pissed me off, mostly by punching me repeatedly in an old wound.Mind you, the dumb…