Saturday Night’s Alright For…
….For Uke (Cover) Fighting! First, the very original original from Lisa Hannigan and friends…. And now, the cover from ‘Busker Rhymes’… ______ A YouTubian fansite of all things Ms. Hannigan…
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Be Careful What You Wish For…
BlowbackKnowsNoBounds SocializingAllMediaVille NPR News is reporting that Planned Parenthood raised three million dollars in the last few days. Which is three times more than they received from the Komen Foundation…
Listening To What Dave Says…
PrivatizeEverything ThatWackyBuiltVille …And Wanting More. Dave of the Galloping Beaver left the following in the comment thread to yesterday’s BC Rail privatization post: Oh! This is delicious! And I have…
RailGate Insiders: Why Didn’t They Say Anything To The ‘Fairness Advisors’?
Sub-JudiceThis! GoFOIYourselfVille To my mind, the central issue of the entire RailGate affair has never been resolved unequivocally. And that unresolved issue is whether or not the fix was in…
The Raw Log Diversification Project
BarelyEvenHewersOfOurOwnWood AnymoreVille The Birdman, Kevin Falcon, swooped into the Okanagan this week to pile on the ‘good’ news about all the great things he and his BC Liberal Party compatriots…
RailGate Revisited: Doing The ProMedia’s Job For Them…
. ….Again. Remember when we learned, back in 2009, that BC Liberal Party insider Mr. Patrick Kinsella was paid $6,000 per month for 49 straight months by BC Rail before,…
Fairway To Heaven, Or….
. Highway to H….E….Double Toothpicks? The New Jersey Star Ledger has the story: Donald Trump may be a proud New Yorker, but he’s thinking about spending eternity in New Jersey.…
Whose Province Is It Anyway?
AllTheLandminesThatFit PostGordoVille Man. I dig it when Justine Hunter, uhhhh…. Digs: B.C. government bureaucrats were urging their political masters last spring to take a position on the Enbridge Northern Gateway…
Once A Political Bully….
RunRunRunRunRunRunRunAway FromYourPastWordsAndDeedsVille The Province published a great letter to the editor from Delta teacher Grace Hoover on Sunday. Here’s the heart of the matter as Ms. Hoover sees it: …January…
Five Minutes That Will Explain All That Is Right With The World…
. …Even When Things Go Wrong. Remember this passage from Catcher In The Rye? “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you…
Whose Curve Is It Anyway?
TheBelleOfTheBall GlobeAnd(nolonger)EmpireVille While Dave already skewered Margaret Wente’s Saturday column on class and caste over at The Beaver, it was impossible not to return to it, based on the following…
Note To The Birdman…
. ….Prove It. “He’s been workin’ real hard trying to make his hands clean….” (almost)Bruce Buried deep beneath the lede of J. Fowlie’s blockbuster in the VSun today… …On the…
Remember The Flap Over BC Liberal Insiders Working The HST Propaganda Catapault?
TheBestPlaceOnEarthToShredYourMoneyAndBuyYourVotes Campbell/ClarkGov’tVille Well, well, well…. It looks like the propagandists, and those who hired them, past and present, have even more ‘xplainin’ to do. Jonathan Fowlie, in the VSun, has…
Lenin’s Ghost Weighs In…
WhiskeyBarUberAlles FeverswampVille lenin’s ghost and I are old friends. We first met in the comment threads at Billmon’s now defunct Whiskey Bar, way back in the dinosaur days when the…
Welcome To The Good Old Days
ChainChainChain ChainOfFoolsRushInVille This is a song for Santa Rosa Jon. Its about the ways things were not so long ago, the way they are now and the way they really…
It All Makes Sense To Me Now…
WhoNeedsPhrenology WhenYou’veGotMurrayVille Because if, according to Charles ‘Coloured’s Is Dumb’ Murray, somewhat popular American Basset Hound Blogger T-Bogg is actually Cornel West. Well… I guess you will not be surprised…
More On The BC Ferries Commisioner’s Report
AllTheScrutinyThatFits WeAreAllIzzyStoneNowVille Here’s something else you haven’t heard from the CorpMedia regarding that report that savages the now departed darling of the puffed-up punditry, Mr. David Hahn. And it comes…
Canada’s New Human League Of Nations…
. ….The Handsome Furs And if you want to see Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry, who currently call Montreal home, improve world relations while they see/tour/play the world you can…
The Smart Affair….The Shaming Of The Herd
What,UsWorry? LotuslandedPunditryVille And it took someone outside the herd, Jim Harrison, who is at Radio NL in Kamloops to do it: “…(E)ven more disturbing and puzzling (than CBC Pacific’s inability…
BC Ferries: The Little Private Monopoly That Couldn’t
DoNotPassGo PayThroughTheNoseForPick-UpParkingVille Robert Matas, consistently the best thing going in The Globe, BC Division, has a pretty good analysis of the Ferry’s Commisioner’s report up. Here’s his lede: BC Ferries…