Not With A Bang, But A Shilling.
AllTheSellingOutThatFits TheCorpIsNoLongerOurMotherVille The CBC in BC is running its student intern program (or a sort) again. Which is laudable, I reckon. What is not so laudable, by my reckoning anyway,…
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Is The Non-Stop Catapaulting Of The Codswallop Blocking Out The Sun?
AllTheWurlitzeringThatFits FoxNewsNorthVille The good Reverend Paperboy, who knows the proMedia business from the inside-out, explains what is really going on at SUN-TeeVee: “The SUN-TV news network was never intended to…
Climbing Into The Cigar Tube, Again.
LeavingLotsusland AgainstMyWillVille This time the science geek bunker is located deep within the bowels of the so-called ‘Center-Of-The-Universe’. And these days, when the Airporter trundles down the Gardiner Expressway towards…
Montreal Simon Has A Message…
AllTheShowin’UpThatFits ParticipatoryDemocracyVille …For Progressives. Which, based on the role that protest and pushback has played in recent events (eg. the flipping of Rob Ford’s budget cuts in Toronto; the delaying…
They Still Don’t Call It The ‘Music Music’
MakingItOnTheirOwn UkeKidsGoneWildVille And try as they might to put the toothpaste back in their monopoly monger tube station at midnight with all their lobbyist-assisted assaults on intenets freedoms, the Multinationals…
Not With A Bang, But A Shilling.
AllTheSellingOutThatFits TheCorpIsNoLongerOurMotherVille The CBC in BC is running its student intern program (or a sort) again. Which is laudable, I reckon. What is not so laudable, by my reckoning anyway,…
Taxis In Lotuslandian Bus Lanes.
AllTheSwervingThatFits HybridsGoneWild(er)Ville Now, I can understand the rationale for this, from Mr. Mayor and Councillor Meggs: Vancouver taxi customers should experience quicker, cheaper trips on congested routes, says the Vancouver…
Dead People Do Not Ride Off Into The Sunset.
De-RegulateEverything HarperlandVille We talked the actions of the Stephen Harper’s government that will almost certainly result in future listeriosis outbreaks in Canada yesterday….. Here is more from Johanna Smith’s recent…
They’ve Got A New Life!
HowCanTwoPersonsLikeYou BringUsJoyVille The best of Lotusland’s (no longer pro?) journalists, Paul Willcocks and Jody Paterson, have a new life. In Honduras! With Accordian!!! “Later I pulled out the accordion –…
The Stephen Harper Government…Listeriosis ‘R Us.
WordsAndActionsMatter GovernmentPolicyVille That was then: …The Canadian Medical Association Journal (ie. a journal published by real doctors) has just published an editorial that places the de-regulation ethos at the Canadian…
The David Hahn 400…Gone But Not Forgotten.
AllTheCutsThatFit RunFerryRunVille Remember when David Hahn tried to cut sailings rather than executive salaries (and not just his own) to cut the ballooning deficit he and his created? Well, it…
The Kind Of Thing We Used To Do…
WeShallOvercome SomedayVille …Before there was a Martin Luther King Day: Vancouver (CP) – The 60,000-man west coast longshoremen’s union in Canada and the United States agreed Thursday not to handle…
If Corporations Are People, Then….
IAmNotARat WillardVille …Mitt Romney is, according to the SuperPac-ManCorp backing Stephen Colbert, A Serial Killer! That’s funny, we always thought Willard was just a wee bit Psycho. Fa fa fa…
Corraling The Dean With A Confidential Missive
NeverMindTheBollocks HereComesTheFireWallVille Well, well, well….. It would appear that Vaughn Palmer got the memo. The ‘secret’ memo that is: …(Conservative Prime Minister Stephen) Harper, far from not having time for…
Saturday Night’s Alright For….
….For Uke (Cover) Fighting! First, the original, which itself is a most fantastic cover of the Michelle Shocked tune called ‘Fogtown’…. And now, the Uke Cover, from Bigger E. and…
BC Ferries: Spokesthingy Vs. Sources
ThereIsNo’W’In StenographyVille From one of the many bits of proMedia stenography that took BC Ferries’ word for it, verbatim, on their latest ‘incident’: BC Ferries cancelled eight sailings today on…
Where There’s Smoke There’s Sure To Be A….
…BC Ferries Spokesthingy Something happened on the Queen of Oak Bay Thursday night that caused it to limp (not drift, as shown above from a few years back) into Horseshoe…
The Ratsturbation Begins!
IfDonnieSegrettiFlewInToday They’dSendALimosineAnywayVille Via T-Bogg, we learn that the screamers have already start to pick-and-roll off of the carcasses of the Newticle and the Empty Suitcase to blame the Dems for…
Are Rodents Of Unusual Size Copulating Or Inoculating…
…Or Both? Ratf*cking (definition): In politics, the use of “dirty tricks” to discredit one’s opponent(s). This often takes the form of false or semi-false accusations spread through underhanded means. The…
Slouching Towards A Big-Ass State Of Petro.
HewersOfWoodCarriersOfWaterAndSqueezersOfRock NewlyMiddleEasternVille As Boris over at The Galloping Beaver points out – we already have a lot of the pillars in place to become a Petro-addled Banana State, what with…