Seriously, We Have to Fight Back
Gagging the armed forces, gagging the public service and, now, sending minders to shadow government scientists at an international forum, this is too much. We are ruled by a regime.…
The Mound of Sound
Humanity – A Lower Form of Life
We sit at the top of our planetary food chain but, when you’re at the top it’s easy, even natural, to imagine yourself far bigger and greater than you truly…
Hey Chairman Harper, We’re Not North Korea Yet
In North Korea it’s standard for visiting journalists to be accompanied by North Korean ‘minders’ who keep and eye on where they go and who they talk to. These minders…
Taking Out the Trash, Bringing Home the Bacon
Mexico City has introduced a novel approach to dealing with its trash problem – food for trash. Under the plan, Mexicans can take standard recyclables to a recycling centre where…
Lovelock’s Curious Turn
At 93, James Lovelock chose a curious moment to call himself an “alarmist” over global warming. Yes, he was a good bit over the top when he predicted mankind would…
Lovelock the Alarmist
Earth science guru and creator of the Gia hypothesis, James Lovelock, says his take on global warming was alarmist. And, on reading an op-ed piece Lovelock wrote for The Independent…
Israel Metastasizes in West Bank Again
Israel has supposedly legalized three more illegal settlements in the Palestinian West Bank. The Palestinian Authority strongly condemned the decision. “Every single settlement built on Palestinian land is illegal”, Chief…
Real Pilots Don’ Need No Steenkin’ Stealth
They just need to fly like this and, if you’ve never tried it, you really shouldn’t knock it. Luftwaffe over Labrador. BTW, this doesn’t really begin to convey how low…
Iggy, STFU. You Buggered Up the Liberals, Don’t Bugger Up Canada.
The Liberal Party’s celestial fuckup, Michael Ignatieff is at it again. Not content with consigning the once great Liberal Party to a rump, he’s now stirring up Quebec separatism. In…
And You Promised God Not to Piss It Away
The Alberta bumper sticker read, “Dear God, give us another oil boom and, this time, we promise we won’t piss it away.” Maybe that just says what Albertans really think…
Former Republican Presidential Candidate Compares GOP to Communist China
John Huntsman thinks his Republican Party acts a lot like the Chinese Communists if you get out of line
From the "They Did WHAT" File, Part Deux
Telegraph writer Emma Barnett found a surprise in her boyfriend’s pants. This: According to Salon.com, Barnett’s discovery set off a firestorm: “…the revelation that somewhere, men’s trousers are telling them…
Are They Working for You? No? Well They’re Working for Somebody.
There’s a thought-provoking article by New York philosophy prof Simon Critchley in the latest AdBusters that goes to a theme that appears periodically on this blog – no one is…
Why Does Canada Need a Hyper-Expensive Light Bomber?
As the F-35 fighter-bomber debate returns to the House of Commons today the opposition parties, forever chasing the shiny thing, will be all over the government about costs and who…
Fifty Billion Dollars on a Handful of Dodgy Fighters and My Coast, the One Facing China Remains Undefended.
Stephen Harper finds blowing craters in distant countries infinitely preferable to actually defending Canada, or at least my part of it. That Canada’s west coast remains undefended was embarrassingly demonstrated…
Why Does Harper Hate British Columbia?
Don’t answer that, it’s a rhetorical question. Early last week it was announced that Harper’s EnviroCan was relocating its Pacific emergency oil spill operations to Quebec which a suspicious mind…
Standing In a Policy Desert
I was born into a politically useless family. When voting day rolled around the only thing certain was that my mother and my father would always vote. They’d get in…
MoTown Music
I grew up about 10-miles as the crow flies from Hitsville USA. It spawned amazing music like this, “Shotgun” performed by the late Gerald Levert. About as good as it…
Will Religious Fundamentalism Become the Last Bastion of Climate Change Denialism?
One by one, the doors are slowly closing shut on the climate change denialists. They’ve had a good run. They have perpetrated a highly-successful scam and have bought a great…
A Hopeful Sign
Afghan security forces seem to have derailed a major terror attack against civilians in Kabul. They intercepted a truck laden with 10-tonnes of explosives hidden underneath a load of potatoes.…