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TheWarOfTheLINOSCoalitionDevolutionVille Did Cookie-Maker Guy just diss the Birdman? Why, yes, it would appear that is indeed so, based on an unbylined* story in The Province: If the anti-HST side wins…
Putting the Lie to the London Race Riot Myth
When the London riots began, we waited for the inevitable reaction from the usual suspects who would, once again, try to claim this as an example of (pick any one…
Back away slowly, Canada…
Potential next President of the USA: CrazyEyes, come on down! Yes. It’s true. And amidst the squirming-like-a-toad insanity that’s been holding the collective USian brain in its grip lately, it…
UK riots: collateral damage
Restoring order, UK style. Yup, that’s a rifle pointed at a prone 15-year-old boy: Each of the boys had their names and addresses taken and police tore open one of…
Small errors matter
On the weekend I was reading an e-book on early Christianity and the Second Temple. The author is a professor at Princeton and I assumed the book, though popular, had…
German Nuclear Shutdown Will Cost 9,000-11,000 Jobs, New Dangers of Nuclear
Is the world already too dependent on nuclear power? Germany's decision to shut down nuclear power generation years early, following the earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan this March, will…
Michele Bachmann about to eat Ronald Reagan
Bachmann looks at a cake commemorating the 100th birthday of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington in February 2011. (Joshua Roberts /…
Music for a Sunday: Never mind the bollocks
What could be better than this song for Merry Old England right now? Okay, maybe this one: And after all this, won’t you give me a smile?
Rick Perry and the United States of Jebeesus
Glory Hallybubbah !!! The Lord has spoken. Just as I prophesied the other day, he has directed his cowboy servant Rick Perry to become God's President. And kick the heathen…
Stevie Harper’s Conservatives Show Just How Spiteful They Are As They Go After a Widow Of an Asbestos Victim
Yep, no holds barred with this gang of miscreants. That asbestos lobby is just so damned important to them that they won’t let a widow of a man who died…
A Matter of Hours
I was talking the other day to young, surprisingly old-school physician who bemoaned nurses “doing things” she thought properly done by duly authorized medical practitioners. (She also implied, by-the-by, that…
Sunday Morning Links
Selected text for your weekend reading. - Edmund Pries points out how the right sees wasted public money and gratuitous tax slashing as tools to force cuts to programs which…
More of The Reals at GQ
They are ordinary men in extraordinary costumes, and they have risen from the ashes of our troubled republic to ensure the safety of their fellow citizens. Jon Ronson goes on…
Yikes! Bachmann Wins Iowa Straw Poll
The extremely mediocre but profoundly radical Michelle Bachmann defeated her Republican presidential nomination rivals to win yesterday's Iowa straw poll.The unwittingly amusing Bachmann proclaimed her win sent a "big message…
America overheats: The Sewer of Stupid is about to overflow | #USpoli
Our Climate Of Extremes | ThinkProgressYep. They're in the middle of their worst drought ever, heat records are being broken every day, but they're going to deny the scientific evidence…
Surfing the Wave of Change
The enormity of the changes underway is finally settling in. We're coming to realize that the 21st century will not be a mere successor to the 18th, 19th and 20th.…
Yoko Ono puts bed-in doc on Youtube – Last day to watch "Bed Peace"
Yoko Ono has put a 70 minute documentary about Ono and Lennon’s “bed-in” for peace in Montreal online for one weekend. Today is the last day to watch the doc…
Compassionate Conservatism: Tories threaten widow over use of Con logo
What's up next for these thugs - torturing puppies?Michaela Keyserlingk, whose husband Robert died in 2009 of mesothelioma, has been running an online banner since the spring that reads, “Canada…
Sunday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
In the wake of Friday's loss to Calgary, there seem to be some stunningly short-sighted theories flying around. So let's point out that the game featured plenty of good news…