Short ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx occupies Wall Street
It’s one of those drizzly, autumnal days around here. Usually, just the kind of weather that would send a kitty indoors, to curl up on her humans’ laps, with her…
Sabina Becker
Teabaggers come to Ontario. Ontarians properly horrified.
“Canadian Klansman” tapestry by Barbara Heller. O, Canada. You’ve certainly seen more than your share of imports from our neighbors to the south. Some, like the Vietnam-era draft dodgers and…
Music for a Sunday: You make me feel so bourgeois
An acoustic version of the great classic. “What’s your name, honey?”
Wankers of the Week: Crass Warfare
Crappy weekend, everyone! Wall Street is still occupied, and it looks like that golden calf is definitely ripe for the slaughter. The protesters are there to stay, much to the…
Happy 75th Birthday, Jim Henson
And to show their appreciation, your creations would like to sing you a little song… > “Nothing really matters…(big breath)…but MOI!!!”
Festive Left Friday Blogging: The hikers are home…
…and who do you suppose brokered their release from Iran? Yup, that evil villainous democratically-elected “strongman”, “dictator”, and whatever other stupid epithet you care to fling at his chemo-bald head.…
When lynching passes for “justice”
Last night, the world witnessed a modern-day judicially sanctioned lynching. Troy Davis was executed last night at 11:08 local time, under heavy protest, in the state of Georgia, by a…
Heroes for Today: Talking back to the 1%ers
You heard the lady. Pay it forward, you tax-dodging billionaires.
Tim Padgett, corruption apologist
Meet Leopoldo López…corrupto, violent agitator, and “popular” politician of the Venezuelan far-right. And apparently, the crushboy of a certain crap “reporter” for TIME Magazine… The Inter-American Court of Human Rights…
Economics for Dummies: It’s still going on
More at The Real News And it will go on until further notice. (Speaking of which, Wall Street, you are now being put on.)
Q. Why are pirates so badass?
A. They just arrrrrr, matey! Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day! And in other buccaneering news, guess who the landlubbers in Berlin are voting for? Piracy…it’s not just for…
Short ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx takes on Wall St.
The Stumpy Cat has been rather busy of late, chasing mice, moles, voles and chipmunks out in the garden. But she’s sticking her cyber-head in now to meow at me.…
Music for a Sunday: The summer’s out of reach…
…and what better song to sum up the melancholy? From the sun going down alone to a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac…it’s all in there.
Wankers of the Week: Wall Street Shutdown edition
Crappy weekend, everyone! Have you heard about the great Wall St. Shutdown? If not, you have only your crappy, prostrate corporate media to blame; they rarely ever report what…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: A left turn for Denmark
…and a new female prime minister, their first ever: The Social Democratic Leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt and her centre-left alliance won Thursday’s general election to give Denmark its first woman prime…
Honduras: 190 years of independence, and still a banana republic
Courtesy of YVKE Mundial, an anniversary that could have gone a whole lot better: On the 190th anniversary of the independence of Honduras, former president and now co-ordinator of the…
Anders Breivik at the scene of his crime
A Norwegian news photo, taken by a surveillance camera, shows Anders Breivik in riot police gear (real, or fake?) shortly after having placed his car bomb in downtown Oslo. (Via…
Grope & Flail blames Chinese news agency for Tory zipper problems
Ahem. A little mood music, maestro David: And now, the sordid story: In his short political career, Bob Dechert has risen through the ranks of the Harper government to assume…
Stupid Sex Tricks: 9-11, with a side order of commodified female flesh
Gawd bless Amurrica! This was uploaded by Hooters itself, two days before the 9-11 x 10 mourn-a-thon. I believe the underlying message is “Eat greasy wings and ogle these Twin…
Quotable: B. Lester on hoarding
“If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats we call her nuts.…