New Hampshire’s Magic Eight Ball….
….Is A Little Cloudy. After all. It did manage to pick Johnny McCain in 2008 and The Shrub in ’04. But. In 2000 chose the even then old and crotchety…
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When Blogging Was So Punk Rock
YouThinkIt’sFunny? Turnin’RebellionIntoMoneyVille Another Sunday story for your listening enjoyment…. _______ You can read it, if you would rather, here. .
Hey! Pundits!…
…Stop Trying To ‘Make Sense’ Of The Ethical Oil Argument. Why? Because, as Ian Reid makes clear, it is nothing but a brazen PR offensive: ….The group, Ethical Oil, was…
Saturday Night’s Alright For….
….For Uke (Cover) Fighting! First, the original…. And now, the fantastical cover, from a real basement (and with a real stylo!)…. ______ UkePegPhotoCredit: LosAngelino PhotoMaven EllenBloom.
One Is Not Enough…
AllTheDogWalksThatFit OurHouseVille Snuck out of the house reasonably early this morning to take the Whackadoodle to the beach. But, before leaving, I had to get my strumming gloves and the…
More On The Latest BC Ferries FOI Docs
AllTheIndependentReportsThatAreFitToHide IsHahnReallyGoneVille The FOI request that led to the document dump was generated by Andrew McLeod of The Tyee who led his piece on them with something that we and…
Say What?….We Still Have The HST!?
ThePeopleSpokeAndHeavyKevvyPretendedToListen Campbell/ClarksvilleStationVille Why yes Virginia, we do. And, as Harvey O, (he’s back!) points out, it’s hurtin’ retail sales: “…In an article in The Vancouver Province about weak Christmas retail…
Wheelin’ Wednesdays…
AResolutionGoneBad RainSweptStreetsVille One of my real New Year’s resolutions (as opposed to the faux ones) is to ride more and drive less. I still ride everyday, but rarely all the…
Dissecting David Hahn….
StoppingSpinWithFacts ImagineThat!Ville Chris Montgomery is on the job again. This time she is working on the rotting carcass of an old Tyee-initiated FOI request from 2010 that is finally seeing…
The Real Surprise Of Iowa Caucus…
AllTheCrazyThatFits GOPVille Is not that Mitt Romney didn’t win going. Instead…. It is the demonstration that fully 75% of the Heartland’s GOP now supports the crazy. ______ And did Rick…
The Hacktacularization Of Everything
There’sAHoleInYourBucket DearLizaVille Christy Clark in trouble because the big tent that Gordon Campbell yanked out of the hands of Gordon Wilson is coming apart fast, at the seams, from the…
Sunday Story (on a holiday Monday)
WordsAreAllThereIs PromisesPromisesVille Bruce Springsteen brought the Circus to town awhile back. C. and I took the kids. This is that story (and it is safe for work). _____ You can…
The One Nick Hornby Missed.
AllTheFidelityThatFits TurnedTablesVille Or maybe it was Stephen Frears. I’m not really sure. Because the book and the movie do get a little muddled in my head occasionally. But if there…
An Idea Whose Time Has Come For Lotusand?
WhoseListIsItAnyway WatchDogListVille I’m talking about Salon’s ‘Hack-List’. It is, as you might expect, U.S. American-O-Centric (i.e. Mark Halperin wins!). “…Halperin spent 2011 gearing up for the presidential elections by parroting…
More Evidence That The Liberals Are No Longer The Natural Governing Party Of Anything
FlagsOfConvenience’RUs BigDeadRedMachineVille Warren Kinsella, interestingly enough nails it. First, Mr. Kinsella tells us that, back in the halcyon days (e.g. a plaid-shirted 1996), Gordon Campbell was the master of a…
New Year’s Resolution Number 2.
AllThePredictionsThatFit UnrepentantForeverYoungHipsterVille “Learn to love the rapture!” And then chew-up and spit all the codswallop back into the faces of the proMedia shills that will play this crap up, laughing…
New Year’s Resolution Number 1.
AllTheInspirationThatFits PLPVille When we got home last night we had some real mail. From the real Springfield. In the real middle of the USA. And in it there was a…
Big New Year Comin’ For…..
AllTheAdventuresThatFit CentralAmericaVille Two of our favourite cross-over proMedia/Blogger-types and all ’round good people, Jody Paterson and Paul Willcocks: We’re off to do volunteer work in one of the poorest countries…
The BC Liberal Party’s Further Descent Into ‘American-Style’ Politics
PoliticsOfDestructionism’RUs LINOVille That was then (ie. Dec 23rd, 2011): “I don’t think Canadians welcome American-style politics. And so whether it’s American politicians or American interest groups, they all to American-style…
The Despots Win The Penant!
HeadsTheyWin TailsWeLoseVille Norm Farrell, along with every shiny, happy business page in N. America, has the story. _____ Although, to be clear, Norm tells it a little differently. .