Original Song #33: Keep
Things aren’t always as they seemLives ripped apart tend to leaveJagged edgesBetter tread carefullyShe’s not quite the womanYou knew back whenYour naivety made you creativeDon’t forget how I was helpless…
Original Song #33: Keep
Things aren't always as they seemLives ripped apart tend to leaveJagged edgesBetter tread carefullyShe's not quite the womanYou knew back whenYour naivety made you creativeDon't forget howI was helpless when…
Original Song #33: Keep
Things aren’t always as they seemLives ripped apart tend to leaveJagged edgesBetter tread carefullyShe’s not quite the womanYou knew back whenYour naivety made you creativeDon’t forget how I was helpless…
What have I forgotten?
Tomorrow is an early morning and a long drive to Killarney Provincial Park. The car's packed. The boat is strapped onto the roof. Hope them foam blocks hold. Hope I…
Anders Breivik at the scene of his crime
A Norwegian news photo, taken by a surveillance camera, shows Anders Breivik in riot police gear (real, or fake?) shortly after having placed his car bomb in downtown Oslo. (Via…
Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada and Pro-Life Comments on This Blog
Argh. Some time ago, one of my acquaintances was trying to cheer me up. She was trying to convince me that it is possible to turn positive into negative. She…
It’s their contest …
…so they can act like poor sports and declare that the online winner is a BIG FAT LOSER, by their Upstanding All-American American Apparel Standards. Nancy Upton, the gorgeous prankster…
Till Madness Do Us Part
The other day on his “700 Hundred Club” program, Pat Robertson made a most astounding pronouncement in response to a man asking what advice he should give to a “friend”…
Vitter-Johnson FARE Act: "Shock Doctrine" Attacks On Renewable Energy
friedman_quote.jpg In her famous book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, author and activist Naomi Klein quotes the Godfather of free market capitalism, Milton Friedman, whom...
"One Random Year" Artist’s Video Shows Snippets of Life
Montreal visual artist Bettina Forget is working on an art project in which she videos a random minute each day for a year. The videos will be edited into a…
Hudak’s public sex offender registry gambit rebuked
A Globe editorial aligns itself with the criticisms that were laid out by the Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner. Hudak's proposal to make public a sex offender registry is a cheap…
Campaigners to stop Enbridge and super tankers make a pilgrimage to northern coastal ecosystems and communities being put at risk
Thursday, September 15, 2011 At the end of the summer, West Coast and our allies in the campaign t...
A useful rape analogy
From the estimable Where I Wander blog:
Quote of the day
A market system that fails to price the full cost of carbon is socialism -Dan Moutal
NRB says ‘new media’ censors ‘religious viewpoints’
National Religious Broadcasters (US) plans to hold a news conference in Washington tomorrow today to release results of a study on what they perceive is religious viewpoint censorship in ‘new…
PC Leadership Candidate Profile – Alison Redford
Alison Redford is a successful, independent woman - mother to a nine year-old girl, a lawyer who advised Brian Mulroney and Joe Clark on policy before travelling the world promoting…
Bizarro World BC
Because where else can you find a provincial Liberal Party attacking the leader of the Conservative Party - for not being conservative enough!?Granted, the BC Liberals are not your standard…
Child abuse is legal in Canada
…when police officers do it. More outrageous brutality, this time against an 11-year-old kid, from the people who brought you Robert Dziekanski. No public accountability. Just more impunity—as once again,…
A Tale of Two Georges
I shouldn’t have to say it, but for the benefit of the cerebrally-deprived I will anyway: I am not a fan of George W Bush — far from it. But…
Compassionate conservatism XXIV: Ron Paul demonstrates his compassionate side
It always strikes me as odd when non-right wingers embrace Ron Paul, treating him like some kind of old man puppy dog. While his stand on overseas wars and drugs…