It isn’t your imagination, they really are talking to themselves
The SUN-TV news network was never intended to cover the news, it was intended to make the news. Some might even say make up the news, but what I mean…
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Street curling
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Oh the weather outside is frightful…
and I don’t have a goddamn fireplace to curl up in front of with a good book while it drizzles outside (Rain? in January? in Canada? Are you shitting me?…
readin’ readin’ readin’
#5 The Sister Brothers by Patrick DeWittNot many reviewers can resist comparing The Sister Brothers to the Cohen Brothers’ version of True Grit and not without reason. The dialogue has…
Another day, another trial balloon
Fresh from launching a trial balloon on reopening the abortion debate that he swears he has no interest in reopening (mainly because it is too handy a chunk of raw…
Beatles Reunion!
And a bunch of other stuff I found Now that Stephen Colbert is sort of running for the Republican nomination and outpolling Jon Huntsman in South Carolina, does that mean…
Headlines we wish we could use
The United States Marine Corps – America’s No. 1 fighting force (sorry, I couldn’t help it)Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
The joy of books
A little something in honour of my 50 book project. (for Dan and Tammy) Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Whatcha reading?
As mentioned previously, I’ve embarked on a little project this year to read 50 books. Partly because I found I had started to cut down on my off-line reading late…
Canada’s little ray of SUNshine
Canada’s ethical snake-oil salesman and Glenn Beck wannabe Ezra Levant continues to keep it classy. As far as I can tell, Ezra’s objection isn’t that Chiquita Banana keep paying right-wing…
a project
My plan for this year is to read at least 50 books – just about one a week, which for me shouldn’t really be a stretch provided I don’t get…
Making people stupider
(JimDandy Goodness, with his sponsored argument between atheists and agnostics, and annoyance at dimwits who discount meteorology because it isn’t 100% accurate 100% of the time got me thinking about…
RIP and en garde
Swordmaster Bob Anderson has laid down his blade at last. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
More stories from the War on Christmas
(graphic and entire concept shamelessly stolen from the brilliant Driftglass post that inspired this whole thing) Close up: Willard, a mall security guard sips from a large hip flask, the…
Have a disgustingly happy Christmas
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The height of political sophistimacation
“Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.“-John Stuart Mill This epigram from Mill has been bouncing around…
Just in time for the Christmas shopping season
Shopping season being upon us, we here at the Woodshed are making our list and checking it twice. Kids are often difficult to buy for, as toy trends come and…
When $90 million isn’t really $90 million
Before you go opening your piehole about how “those Indians get a free ride” and are just “spending all our tax money on booze, big screen TVs and new snowmobiles”…
Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward men…
…Unless they happen to be Iranian or North Korean or Syrian or Mexican or Jordanian or Nicaraguan or Cuban or Russian or French or Chinese or Australian or Kenyan or…
Another casualty in the war on the poor
I’m sure the message many of the one percent will draw from this is that handguns are too inexpensive. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed