Relax, It’s All Recycled Pee Anyway
This Guy Not Only Drank Your Water First, He Made It. London’s Thames Water utility is polling city residents for their views on drinking recycled sewage water. It’s one solution…
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This morning I saw a few minutes of a CBC Newsworld political…
This morning I saw a few minutes of a CBC Newsworld political panel and again concluded that Canada must abolish its senate immediately. Abolish it now! There is no time…
The Door To Hell: World’s Mysterious Places
“This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35…
The Door To Hell: World’s Mysterious Places
“This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35…
5982…When Will It Be Dean Del Mastro’s Turn?
To face the music. This has dragged on for a long, long, looooooonnnng time. May be I will run into him at the Chinese buffet this week and I can…
On Vancouver Island, Women Still Get a Taste of Frontier Justice
If you’re going to run afoul of the law on Vancouver Island, you had better hope and pray you’re not female. If a man is arrested in Victoria and goes…
100% Guarantee by 100% Corrupt Harper Government
It’s 100% time to put 100% of the 100% crooked and 100% corrupt Stephen Harper Conservatives behind their 100% publicly funded 100% privately owned prison system. I’m 100% astounded and…
Nova Scotia votes – (not on) May 21
Teddy here to let you know CBC has opened up a NS votes page:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nsvotes2013/listing the vote date at May 21st. This comes as a surprise to me, as I have…
And the Walls Come Tumbling Down
Another look at the century old and ongoing, lethal aftermath of the way Britain and France carved up the Middle East following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire post WWI.…
5981…Manti T’e’o’s Girlfriend #69 On Maxim List
Maxim is a men’s rag that yearly puts out a list of what it considers to be the 100 best looking women in the world. Manti Te’o’ is a former…
Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – Daniel Boffey catches one of David Cameron’s top aides saying what most Cons leave as an unstated assumption: that recession and depressed wages…
Sask Premier Brad Wall Hypes Job Creation Of ‘16,700 New Jobs’ In Last Year – Reality Is That 65% Were Temporary Foreign Workers …
The Hype ……. The Reality ……. “Saskatchewan may be creating thousands of new jobs, but most are held by migrant workers according to a recent study by the Canadian Labour…
You Know a Guy’s Nuts When…
Let’s say you’ve got a neighbour and your neighbour has a really big bulldozer and your neighbour becomes fond of using that bulldozer late at night to dig seemingly random…
May 12: 1000 women in Bangladesh…
1000 women in Bangladesh buried alive. They had been locked into a ramshackle building to ensure they would stay for their full, long work hours to ensure they really earned…
Is Trauma Counselling Actually Harmful?
It seems standard these days that survivors of traumatic incidents of man-made or natural disaster are quickly whisked into trauma counselling. It seems pretty intuitive – people are traumatized, people…
But Would It Still be "Royal"?
This is what can happen when Conservatives become too full of themselves. Britain’s Conservative government is openly talking about privatizing the Royal Mail, a crown corporation, and not just going…
On distortions
Yes, there’s generally reason to be skeptical of corporate apologists trying to claim a populist, anti-corporate-welfare mantle while pushing for business to contribute less and less to society as a…
Climate Sensitivity in a Nutshell
There’s a very useful, and usefully concise, primer on climate sensitivity in The Guardian. It runs through the major ambiguities, probabilities and mere possibilities and deserves a quick read. To…
On the Cusp of Mankind’s Century of Mass Migration
There’s nothing magical in reaching a record 400 ppm concentration of atmospheric CO2 but it’s not symbolic either. It’s a benchmark of how far we’ve come and where we’re headed.…