Music for a Sunday: Hast du etwas Zeit für mich?
An only slightly fanciful version of how stupid the Cold War mentality could get. Germany was caught in the middle of it all, and Germans (including this Canadian one) were…
Sabina Becker
Wankers of the Week: 9-11 times 10, and wank to the nth degree
Crappy weekend, everyone! The tenth anniversary of 9-11 is upon us! FEAR FEAR TERROR TERROR EVERYBODY SHIT YOUR PANTS IN UNISON!!! Ahem. Scared yet? No? Good…because you’re going to need…
Quotable: Adam Smith said WHAT?
“The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to …the…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Colombia fights back with style
“In Locombia, even we puppets are called terrorists!” This was taken at a demonstration in Bogotá, where at least 80,000 students and teachers protested against government cutbacks to health and…
In capitalism, everything is a commodity…
…be it women: …or children: Yes, that’s right…human beings are now objects to be “won” in stupid radio contests. Incidentally, both these contests are being held by Canadian radio stations.…
Stupid Sex Tricks: Only in France?
Zut alors! Sexual abstinence could cost you dear. Jean-Louis, 51, found that out the hard way after his divorce. According to Le Parisien, the Niçois was sentenced in May 2009…
Music for a Sunday: You could come if you wanted to…
Just another end-of-summer tune for gettin’ silly to.
Wankers of the Week: Labor Dazed edition
Crappy Labor Day weekend, everyone! So, how’s that jobless “recovery” been treating you? Like shit? No kidding. If it’s jobless, it’s not a recovery, no matter how the media spin…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito, chemo, cheer
Chavecito’s now on his third round of chemo, but his cheer is unimpaired. And his hair looks like it’s starting to grow back, too.
Cops Behaving Badly: To Serv(ic)e and…
Oh lord. I hope this officer did protect while he was, um, serving: According to The Smoking Gun, this unprofessional-but-oh-so-romantic moment took place in New Mexico, in an oft-vandalized location.…
Stupid Sex Tricks: How NOT to Succeed in Journalism Without Really Trying
In a nutshell, always believe what dickish men in suits tell you: Kang was indicted earlier this year on charges of making sexually abusive remarks during a dinner with dozens…
Ahem. As I said earlier…
And if you don’t believe me, here ya go. Jack Layton’s untimely death has triggered another orange wave across the country, a new poll suggests. The Harris/Decima survey conducted for…
Further rumblings
Francis Barlow’s illustration to “The Bat, The Birds and the Beasts”, by Aesop. Yesterday I blogged about how there’s talk of a Liberal/NDP merger. Now someone else has weighed in…
Rumblings
Funny, the sky is clear. So why do I keep hearing the sound of distant thunder? Oh. Wait. It’s coming from Ottawa: Two days after Jack Layton’s state funeral turned…
The People’s Procession
This is what all the right-wingers couldn’t wait even 24 hours to piss on, folks… A state funeral like none before it, and one that we may never see the…
And so it begins…
What is “it”? The speculation, naturally. Olivia Chow is just newly widowed, and already there is talk of whether she’ll run for the top job in the NDP. The one…
Music for a Sunday: They met in a hurricane…
A song to fit both the weather (Hurricane Irene, now a tropical storm petering out) and my mood (sombre and pensive, but still daring to hope.)
Wankers of the Week: Disaster Week edition
Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, how about the week that was? Full of natural disasters, from those storms in Southern Ontario, to Hurricane Irene, to that earthquake on the East Coast…
Stupid Sex Tricks: How to cope when it’s just you on your own
Dave Franco demonstrates how it’s done: Go F*ck Yourself with Dave Franco from Dave Franco Of course, this assumes that every guy whose girl dumps him in a fit of…
Jack Layton on This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Jack gets Marg’d. And other choice moments. Lots of Canadian politicians have been great sports about the merciless satire this CBC fake-news show dishes out on their (usually) all-too-deserving heads,…