Don’t You Just Hate It When…
It’s such a bitch being well off in an affluent homeland. Just as these folks:
The Mound of Sound
Doom And Gloom – The Stones Return
They’re not going anywhere, not yet at least. The Stones return to celebrate their 50th year of rock and roll. Doom and Gloom.
Who Says Shit Like This? Oh yeah, …Republicans – Again
“Some Girls Rape Easy” Wisconsin state representative Roger Rivard says his pappy taught him to be wary of “consensual” sex because “some girls rape easy.” “He told the Journal Sentinel…
Those Damned Vikings and Their Carbon Taxes
What’s wrong with those backwater pinkos in longboats? Don’t they know that socialism doesn’t work? Can’t they get it through their Scandinavian skulls that they’re supposed to be dying off…
F-35, A Nuclear Strike Bomber?
Surprise, surprise – the F-35 is being designed with a nuclear weapons capability. Presumably even Steve Harper hasn’t got the guts to add a nuclear arsenal to Canada’s military establishment…
The Youngest Old Man in the Liberal Party
The Ottawa Citizen’s Sue Riley looks at Justin Trudeau and sees the youngest old man in a Liberal Party full of old men. …The Liberal leadership hopeful’s much-anticipated launch speech…
To the Big Picture, Does the White House Matter?
A substantial majority of Canadians want to see Barack Obama re-elected. Why? To be sure, the Republican offerings of late have been unpopular here and pretty much around the world,…
Who Says Shit Like This? Oh Yeah, …Republicans.
If Barack Obama has achieved nothing else, he has fundamentally disproved the notion of a post-segregationist America. Even before the Obama family moved into the White House the floodgates of…
Will the Country that Gave the World Democracy, Lose Its Own?
The prime minister of Greece warns his country is on the verge of becoming the next Wiemar Republic. Antonis Samaras is appealing for funds to fend off the outright collapse…
I’m Not Like My Father – J. Trudeau
When it comes right down to it, Justin Trudeau really has just one thing going for him, his youth. It’s sad that he doesn’t seem to want that getting in…
Living Beneath the Drones Overhead
The villagers hear them. They know the distinctive buzzing sound of the American drones patrolling overhead that the villagers call “mosquitoes.” The US missile-attacks destroy militant training compounds and cars…
Jeffrey Simpson Pronounces Northern Gateway D.O.A.
Globe & Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson writes that the Enbridge/Harper/China Northern Gateway pipeline proposal is dead – stone cold dead. To survive, the Gateway pipeline would have to push past…
God Save the Queen
Neil Young, bless him, recorded this ode to HM
NATO Went to War for America, Why Not Turkey?
Like the United States, Turkey is a full member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Article 5 of the NATO charter obliges all members to come to the aid of…
Fighting Corruption with Vitamins
Malnutrition is a huge problem in Afghanistan. One-fifth of Afghan kids are malnourished and that increases to one-third in combat zones. 60 per cent of children under five are stunted.…
Is Your Cell Phone Giving Away All Your Secrets?
Privacy? That’s a thing of the past. The Surveillance State is the new reality and, barring massive government intervention, it’s here to stay. How are you liking that fancy Android…
Connecticut Court Aquits Rapist Because Victim Couldn’t Scream
Yeah, you heard that right. The Connecticut Supreme Court, by a 4 to 3 vote, overturned the sexual assault conviction of a man who allegedly raped a woman who “has…
Giant Tar Sands Lakes for Athabasca
Big Oil has figured out it’s way too expensive to fill in their bitumen mines with soil and far, far cheaper to simply transform them into lakes. Here’s the kicker.…
The Right Will Howl Tonight
Income inequality seems to have sprung up as a hot issue in the American elections. With a consummate rent-seeker, Mitt Romney, carrying the Republican banner, America’s crippling inequality – income,…
Watts, Charlie Watts
This is about as close as you can hope to get to the Stones’ epic drummer, Charlie Watts. In Old Gods, Nearly Dead, the narrative goes on at some length…