TWO FREAKING YEARS…
…for convicted child molester / sex offender / pedophile Graham James???? Seriously??????????????? WTF? I hope the Crown appeals this RIDICULOUSLY short sentence! And why the Hell is this guy permitted…
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Hey! Fanshawe students…
… why did this happen? A St. Paddy’s Day low-key celebration turns into a riot so vicious that cops in riot gear had to beat a hasty retreat… what brought…
Apple and Chinese factories – does anyone care?
Here is a very interesting article on working conditions inside Chinese factories where Apple products are assembled. … but I wonder how many people would actually change their purchasing patterns…
One progressive party under one banner?
“Nope,” I said. “They’re too goddamn stupid.” That’s what Warren Kinsella told Bobby Kennedy Jr. when asked if the NDP and Liberals could ever be persuaded to work together. And…
This getting a bit creepy…
… seriously. 26 degrees in MARCH??? Look, I know that I go on and on about the weather – I am a Canadian, after all – but is this not…
Friday miscellany…
Encyclopaedia Britannica edition… Bye-bye to that venerable institution. I remember when my parents bought a set from a door-to-door salesman. I went through every single page! But the truth is…
Crazy shit…
…Going down in the Valley… Weird for March…
Yeah….
… that’s pretty much it. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Of COURSE the CPC won’t…
… tear up PS Collective Agreements! Not a chance! “tearing up” is so gauche. So unimaginative, so 19th century! Famous for being a very detail-oriented little party, the ReformCons have…
Legitimizing myths and superstitions…
…And I have a Loblaws bag with the remains of a Leprechaun contained therein. Really! I do! An Israeli antiquities dealer has been acquitted of forging relics, including the contentious…
So Santorum wins…
… two Bible-belt states… and some folks are surprised? Really? On the radio this morning, I hear him say to a crowd after the wins: “The most common thing I…
Wow!
Fifteen or so degrees above the normal max! Incredible. Shorts on Saturday! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Back when Conservatives could be “progressive” too…
… there was a guy named Brian Mulroney. He was our Prime Minster. A lot of folks didn’t like the man very much. They saw him as arrogant, too pro-American…
Friday miscellany…
… O M G! The SKY is falling edition… Literally. The sky. Falling. Yup. The sun burps and we all freak out. Oh no! The GPS on my iPhone might…
Jason Kenney rises in the House…
… to screech that fraudulent calls were the result of a massive solar storm. Possibly caused by Stephen Dion. Or Taliban Bob. Solar system frauds. A proud legacy of the…
New school rankings!
The Fraser Institute school ranking have been released and Pleasant Park PS has moved up the scale considerably! Congrats! I am not a huge fan of these rankings (nor of…
A course on…
… how to commit fraud? Interesting piece in the Vancouver Observer that is making the rounds on Facebook describing a course given through the conservative think-tank Manning Institute. Again, no…
Yes kids…
… that’s an almost 30 degree swing in the temperature in one day… For Americans, that’s about a 53 F swing! Whatta country! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Upper deck of…
… OC Transpo #40! Yeah, I’m just a kid at heart! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Why has there been a…
… secret robotic plane orbiting in space for the past year? No one seems to know. What the robotic space plane has been doing in orbit for so long remains…