I’d like to give the whole world a big hug…
Shamelessly stolen from PZ over at Pharyngula, music by Jonathan Colton, whose work you really, really need to become more familiar with. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
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This looks promising
It is kind of Thunderbirds meets the Prisoner via Monty Python, the Batman TV series and a really low budget Japanese sci-fi series.This is just the trailer, the series started…
the constitution doesn’t mention GPS tracking
My suggestion if you find one of these on your vehicle would be to either drive to a truckstop and stick it on a tractor-trailer with out-of-state plates, or box…
the return of Friday music!
A couple of tunes for what appears to have become the second largest national holiday in the U.S. and rapidly in Canada, too. Why celebrate Easter, Diwali or Labour Day…
Headline of the week, maybe of the year
Thank you Toronto Star , for making the headline suit the story Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
We spent a billion dollars for this?
Note that most of these people were arrested in pre-dawn raids BEFORE the G20 demonstrations began, thanks to the use of infiltrators and police spies and agents provocateurs. And it…
1,000 word post
Shamelessly stolen from Montreal Simon, whose excellent blog should be regular readingTweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
the other kind of beat poets
Former Poet Laureate of the United States and UC Berkley professor Robert Haas didn’t want to believe that the police were needlessly beating students at Occupy Berkley, so he went…
Fetch the smelling salts, someone said "Fuck" on the internet
As I write this, the number one story under Canada on Google news is the report by the privacy commissioner about the government collecting too much information about us, especially…
the original Lord of the Rings
(and this explains the label) Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
What they fought and died for
While I dislike the thought of politicizing Remembrance Day any more than it already has become politicized, neither can I stomach the idea of the leaving it to the flag-draped…
How long?
This week at Berkely.How much more will the wealthy's bought and paid for politicians rob from the poor to give to the rich? How much more will people allow their…
Things go better with Koch!
The Koch brothers (not exactly as pictured above) would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, or at least the world's billionaires anyway. Unfortunately, the song they…
Nail injured in clash with hammer
As a journalist I understand the need to use value neutral terminology in describing events much of the time, but sometimes my colleagues and I go a bit overboard. I…
Rick Parry is not as think as you stoned he is!
Here are the "high"lights of soon-to-be-former-presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry's recent speech in New Hampshire. If you want to sit through the entire addled trainwreck you can watch it…
there is a reason that many newspaper websites don’t allow comments
And that reason is this: People who comment at newspaper websites are stupid, as are many people who complain to newspapers, as are many people who work for newspapers. Pour…
happy Halloween
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This will not stand!
"You won't recognize Canada when I get through with it"-Stephen HarperNot content with running roughshod over the wishes of the majority of Canadians and eliminating the long-gun registry, ignoring the…
Keeping occupied
Cartoon shamelessly stolen from Alison at Creekside, who got it from LeDevoir.It appears the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to crumble a bit around the edges. Some of the…
both need braaaaaaains
There is a rare seasonly-themed event this week that I would love to attend, You don't often see seasonally themed events for political wonks, but this one promises to be…