The Children’s Hour
Ezra Klein cuts to the chase in today's Washington Post. The White House wanted $400 billion in revenues, and John Boehner knew he couldn't get the deal through the House:But…
An observation on the Norway bombings/shootings
As you’ve no doubt heard, a far right extremist gunman who holds anti-immigration, anti-Muslim views decided to vent his wrath on the governing Socialist Party in Norway yesterday, blowing up…
Haunted Friday
On Friday April and I went to Kensington and its haunted mansion. It’s a historic house from the 1800s, redone into a haunted house and theme park with rides. The…
Canada’s right – many are narrow minded and reactive hypocrites
I might have more to say about this later, but for now I just want to highlight the idiocy of some on the right of the spectrum here in Canada.…
Traffic in the heat of the Summer of Love 2011
Fire trucks, Twitter and a 60 year old who dropped a hundred pounds in six months wanting a job today she didn’t want six months ago. Must be the Summer…
Norway: The Horror and the Sorrow
If you sail a boat in a straight line off this Scottish beach where I played when I was a boy, it won't be too long before you'll find yourself…
Anders Behring Breivik: a Norwegian Timothy McVeigh? UPDATE: He’s a Pam Geller fan!
Michelle Malkin, Pam Geller et al. have been screaming “Jihad” all day over the bombings in Norway. Oops. A right wing nationalist with an animus towards Muslims? And a Christian…
Owling
Owling is the new planking:
Friday night | h/t @impolitical and @pogge411
See what you've started?Wish I'd been around for this gig.
Musical interlude
Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl
Some clouds in progress
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Oceans in Peril: Radical Action Needed to Avert 90% Species Extinction
The oceans of Planet Earth currently contain about a quarter million species of marine organisms, which together constitute the Marine Food Pyramid and the Marine Food Web. If we do…
Oceans in Peril: Radical Action Needed to Avert 90% Sepcies Extinction
The oceans of Planet Earth currently contain about a quarter million species of marine organisms, which together constitute the Marine Food Pyramid and the Marine Food Web. If we do…
Replacing a hard drive in a Macbook Air: in over my head
Well that was a drag. I ordered a hard disk to replace the defunct one in Irene's Macbook Air several weeks ago. It finally arrived and I spent much of…
On the Oslo blasts
By now you’re probably aware of the explosion and subsequent shooting that happened today (yesterday there?) in Oslo, Norway. If not, go read then come back. Going off the details…
Dumb dumb dumb
A US debt default is totally unnecessary -- and becoming increasingly likely because of a game of political chicken. http://bit.ly/omwsef "The unthinkable could happen," said Mr. Pryor, an Arkansas Democrat.…
Friday night
Loooove this one, Goodwill & Hook 'n Sling, Take You Higher. It kind of cuts off at the end, that's because it's not officially out until next week.Other tunes for…
Americans can’t seem to apply Greek style austerity measures to stave off default, while Republicans flush their country down the toilet
If I was in U.S. House Speaker John A. Boehner’s shoes I would have agreed to President Obama’s terms in raising the country’s debt ceiling.Why? Well I think it’s because…
It takes effort to ignore the truth so rigorously
New Statesman, July 25, 2011 speaking of Scotland Yard and the British PMO's lack of interest in investigating the phone hacking scandal until forced to by stories in the Guardian.