And we’re back
So we beetled home today, anticipating much caterwauling on the part of Mallory who made it abundantly clear she did not want to leave. More specifically, "I hate camping. There's…
Yay, Sheepdogs!
They're on the cover of the Rolling StoneCongrats, boys.
Music for a Monday: A lament for Che
Yes, I know, this is very belated; I should have put this up yesterday: Steven Soderbergh’s two-volume movie of Che’s Cuban triumph and his Bolivian downfall is hugely ambitious, and…
Dumping Shit in The Ottawa River
This blog post contains graphic language because there is no way to pretty up dumping shit in the city's drinking water source.If I were to walk into the Ottawa River…
One man’s tar baby. The Doug Lamborn story.
Fox News thinks the real news about Colorado Republican Doug Lamborn saying about Obama, "...it's like touching a, a tar baby" is that it "riled the left". Meaning of course,…
Satan Sammich.
Well, the world has been SAVED...Fucked over and screwed again by the Obamamaniacs and the teabaggers.... Austerity is the word. And here is someone who will explain why what the…
Driving a wedge between the police and the public
http://natpo.st/qwomVl There is a long fictional tradition of police planting evidence to ensure a conviction; the police know who the criminal is but don't have quite enough evidence to prove…
Could Ontario NDP Pull A Layton?
This is interesting: The Forum Research survey found Hudak’s Tories at 38 per cent — down from 41 per cent in June — to McGuinty’s Liberals at 28 per cent,…
Reflections on BC Day
It’s August 1 – British Columbia Day. This being a relatively new holiday, we have not really come up with a tradition such as we have on Thanksgiving and Christian…
NDP Next Steps Roundup
Not surprisingly, plenty in the Canadian media have responded to the NDP's first big news of the summer with all kinds of discussion as to where the party will go…
I’m Sure Mme Turmel Expects Nothing Less
Well, what do we have here? Some Harpercons along with Timmy Powers, warning that Nycole Turmel will be “no 1 target” of her political opponents. “She will find herself under…
The Bidder 70 26: The Catalyst That Will Ignite The Climate Movement
B70_Sentencing_072611_RS_13.jpg The night before Tim DeChristopher's sentencing was like any other before an action - we were all up way too late, distressed about work that hadn’t gotten d...
Tim Hudak’s record on abortion
In 1996, under the Harris Conservatives, an MPP by the name of Frank Klees introduced a private member’s bill that would limit access to abortion by mandating parental notification before…
Heather Mallick ignores Andrea Horwath as the only party leader who rightly champions women’s rights, or sorry sister it’s hard out here for a Liberal shill like me
According to Heather Mallick in Today’s The Star: But what he and Hudak and Harper should understand is that abortion is not a “chip” on a woman’s shoulder, it is…
Craig Chandler Goes Liberal!
There's this story in the G&M, so you know it isn't a joke. Nevertheless, the email from Craig Chandler at the PGIB (Progressive Group for Independent Business) wants you to…
Feeling a bit depressed and needing a lift, Church revived my spirit
Its been an eventful couple of past weeks for this blogger readers, since I last updated my little corner of cyber space I celebrated yet another birthday, my 45th. But…
In Gas Driller’s Canadian East Coast Heartland, A Day Of FRACtion
Shale Gass Fredericton Inn Thurs. June 23, 2011 044.jpg On August 1st and 2nd, a Day of FRACtion involving marches and protests is taking place across most of Canada’s Atlantic…