Moneyball
The movie about Billy Beane and his revolutionizing of the Oakland A's and their baseball strategy is coming out soon, why I assume Patrick Lagace is writing about Beane today.…
Why Won’t The Dean Go To The Heart Of The HST Referendum Matter?
TheProPunditWithTheMostPowerPullsHisPunches(Again)VilleIn his latest VSun piece, Vaughn Palmer explains that by pulling the plug on the HST 'initiative', which would have required 50% + 1 of all ELIGIBLE voters in all…
Saturday Photo: Fruit Salad for an August NIght
First special dinner since we've moved back. Jeanne and her parents, paella and fruit salad with Ontario peaches and BC cherries. What a nice prospect!
The "Good Old Days" Are Over – China Warns U.S.
America's biggest creditor isn't amused by that country's newly downgraded, AA+ rating. Now China says the "good old days" are over for the U.S.China has renewed its demand for a…
What? The Honduran coup isn’t over yet?
Nope: Honduran police have turned professional arsonists. Their targets: Honduran peasant villagers. Their employers: Big illegal landowners who refuse to recognize the campesinos’ land claims under a 12-year-old agrarian reform…
the true price of publishing
production or content? http://ow.ly/5WRvG Filed under: Miscellany
On warning signs
Shorter Jim Flaherty:Of course economic trouble elsewhere in the world will have negative consequences for Canada. But we won't let that stop us from pushing the same bad advice that's…
Elizabet May Is To Be Commended For Defending Nycole Turmel From Political Gamesmanship
Here's a BIG 'tip of the hat' to Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May, for her position on the Media hysteria over Nycole Turmel. "First, she wants everyone to stop beating…
I’m afraid of Naomi Wolf
She calls herself a “third-wave feminist,” but Naomi Wolf wants memorial services for fetuses. Now she tells us that Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin are feminists, too. Nothing like setting…
“The Response” – of Lunatics
Frightening scenes from Rick Perry’s crazed religious jamboree taking place today deep in the heart of Texas… 1) Rabid anti-choice activists call on God to end abortions in America. 2)…
grammar changes votes
new study shows how voter reactions differ according to which form of past tense is used! http://ow.ly/5WP76 Filed under: Miscellany
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Shorter Boris: And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
More Nonsense Out Of Toronto Thanks To Ford And His Minions
The lack of critical thinking skills in the public arena is a painful thing to watch. In a story from yesterday's Toronto Star entitled Despite warning, fire chief refuses to…
coal and the Buddha
via photography.nationalgeographic.com This photo speaks for itself. Filed under: Miscellany
Wealth gap in the U.S.—100 years of progress lost
A lost century—inequality in the U.S. is more extreme than it has been in almost 100 years. The gap between the ultra-rich and the poor and middle class has widened…
Double Standards And Chauvinism In The Nycole Turmel Affair
For over a week now, politicians, the media and pundits have relentlessly sniped interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel for her past association with the Bloc Quebecois. To them, it’s not…
Angles and Corners
These boys are all skinny legs and large, awkward feet. You see the way they stand and listen to their coaches, and you see glimpses of the men they will…
Has the leak investigation been announced?
I've seen a number of media stories since yesterday about the CSIS documents that were leaked to La Presse and supposedly reveal that Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui once plotted…
Canada-Brazil Relations : not good
When I went to Brazil on an impromptu, last-minute whim in Iguazu Falls, Argentina, I was surprised that my Canadian passport was insufficient to enter the country. Like Chile, they…