Pondering Pam Et Al.
It was a comment yesterday that The Mound of Sound (a.k.a. The Disaffected Lib) made in response to a cartoon I posted depicting the much beleaguered Senator Wallin that made…
Helping health units that hate gambling.
“For some individuals, gambling is a devastating problem,” says the Ottawa health unit. From this you can deduce that the unit is somewhat negative about the siren lure of casinos.…
The B Team – A Plan B for the Economy
The economic stupidity of a few years back is still causing problems and the fact that the wrongdoers got bailouts for their transgressions hasn’t helped. Even years later economies haven’t…
Thag want be millionaire!
It had been an unlucky hunting season. First of all, their big man, Grunk, got himself gored by a woolly rhinoceros in the first week of the expedition. Grunk —…
From Dream To Obsession To Delusion
Having nixed the Northern Gateway Pipeline with their over the top rhetoric — and with the future of the Keystone Pipeline in doubt — you would think that the Harper…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, August 14, 2013: When the next Ernest Hemingway dies, who will own his Facebook account? – Quartz…
Paywalls will not be the print media’s Holy Grail
You may have noticed yesterday if you visited the Toronto Star that they have implemented their new paywall system. As with the Globe and Mail and others, you’re allowed a…
Five Myths of Terrorism
From Michael Shermer, monthly columnist for Scientific American, a respected science magazine founded in 1845. Link to Dr. Shermer’s complete article, Five Myths of Terrorism. It is worth reading, particularly…
Summer Reading List
A compendium of 100 biases in the way we all think, described in easy-to-understand language, The Art of Thinking Clearly should be required reading in the provincial government these days.…
The Census and the Dark Harperland Summer
I've never seen a summer like this one. So grey, so cold, so ominous. And as it turns out so Harperland eh?For more proof today that if Great Ugly Leader…
Canadian Lemmings
From the New Yorker, August 5th ed.
Giant Corp Nestle’s Get A Free Ride From The BC Liberals
Richard ‘Hub’ HughesPolitical Blogger Christy Clark’s BC Liberals are great managers of our multi billion dollar indebted province. Why life is so easy in BC that we allow private multi…
Ottawa entitlement syndrome
Was there ever a truer phrase spoken in Ottawa than when David Dingwall told parliament that he was “entitled to his entitlements”? Its all of Ottawa in a nutshell —…
Autism Breakthrough? Autism Speaks Recognizes Autism Heterogeneity!
Rethinking Autism Variation and Complexity by Lynn Waterhouse is a recent work which provides a thorough, expert and extremely well researched picture of the variation and complexity of autism spectrum…
Don’t let Canada become a NAFTA Pollution Haven
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 In 1994 Canadians were worried that NAFTA could see our country become a “pollution haven”, and to address those concerns Canada signed on to the NAFTA…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats meeting friends.
Christo – Big Air Package
Big Air Package, an indoor installation for the Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany, was conceived in 2010 and is on view from March 16 to December 30, 2013. 90 meters high, with…
Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites
A new study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in groundwater near natural gas fracking sites in Texas’…