Baked Alaska
If there’s something synonymous with Alaska surely it has to be snow. Well that used to be the case but, in case you haven’t heard, things are changing pretty rapidly…
The Mound of Sound
Jesus Christ – It Seems He Was Onto Something
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.The gospels of Matthew (19:24), Luke…
Who Knew? Tory Poster Boy, Sir John A., Was a Right Racist Bastard.
They never taught this stuff when I was in high school. Arlene Ewert writes in today’s Victoria Times Colonist that our veneration of Sir John A. Macdonald is undeserved and…
Free Speech Isn’t Always Free
Twelve dead, as many again wounded, after a terror attack on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo. Paris police have launched a manhunt for the gunmen who escaped after attacking…
The Top Ten Wars of 2015
And a Happy New Year to you too. The new president of the International Crisis Group, Jean-Marie Guehenno, has issued his own New Year greetings in an article on the…
Oh, What a Thought? Our Inalienable Right to Environmental Security from Our Government.
By hook and by crook the Harper government has been relentless in pillaging Canada’s environment. Hazmat trafficking in bitumen, oil spills, leaky tailing ponds, air pollution, pipelines and exploding trains,…
Charlie Booker’s Wipe
What do you think? Have you been conditioned to accept powerlessness? Pick up the video at about 25:38
It’s America’s Problem. Why Make It Canada’s?
One of These Is a Fighter. Your Guess. Imagine what would happen if you showed up for your first day of work at a new job with no pants. That,…
What’s a Single Issue Prime Minister to Do?
These are not good times for Canada’s petro-prime minister. Harper’s Holy Grail, Canadian energy superpowerdom, has sprung a leak. Even The Globe & Mail, says bitumen no longer makes any…
That Thing About How Those Who Forget Their History are Doomed to Relive It? Confirmed.
Autumn Forge. Familiar, No? Not many – certainly not enough – of us have any vivid recollection of the Cold War that spanned the second half of the 20th century.…
When the Shooting Starts, It’ll Probably be Here
Sure this is a bummer to start the new year but arms races are a major cause of war, often unintended and undesired. It’s not just the country buying all…
The Exorcism of Stephen Joseph Harper
Steve, He’s Coming for You Stephen Harper has a problem. The Holy Father is coming for him and the rest of his ilk. This time it’s not a legion of…
Did You Hear the One About the F-35?
There’s enough stuff in the F-35 to get a comedian through a HBO special. The latest guffaw – its gun doesn’t shoot. It’s there and everything – gun, ammunition, the…
No, It’s the Environment, Stupid.
David Suzuki once observed that we cannot have a healthy economy without a healthy environment. It shouldn’t require a PhD to grasp that yet it’s astonishing how so many well-educated…
Orbital Lapse
European Space Agency astronaut, Alexander Gerst, compiled this breathtaking series of timelapse videos from the International Space Station.
John Oliver on How to Celebrate New Year’s Eve – Don’t.
Just the sort of thing to appeal to a true Curmudgeon.
What Santa Forgot this Christmas
No, this wasn’t under the tree Christmas morning and am I pissed. The AeroMobil from Slovakia. 124 mph max speed with 430 miles on a full tank of gas. 29…
Just Three. What Are Yours?
Three will do; not four, not two. I want you to take a bit of time to dwell on this. What are the three character traits/flaws of Stephen Joseph Harper…
If It Scares Canadians, It’s Manna from Heaven for the Tories
Manipulating the public with carefully tailored fear is despicable. It’s also the entire first chapter in Stephen Harper’s playbook. He’s been incredibly successful in using fear as a weapon to…
Is Raul Castro’s Cuba the First Big Winner in Cold War II?
Now that Washington and Havana appear to be on the road to kissing and making up, it’s worth considering whether the timing is really that spontaneous? Cuba was always the…