What Obama can do about the debt ceiling
The big news item in the US, other than the Casey Anthony trial, has been the need for Congress to raise the national debt ceiling, in order to avoid defaulting…
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Filmmaker Adam Curtis returns with a brilliant new documentary series that explores the ways in which many of our modern ideas and conventionally held beliefs have been perversely shaped by…
Junk mail
Various journalists are blaming the postal workers for the mail backlog -- they're forgetting that it was Canada Post management that decided to lock out its workers for two weeks…
Musical interlude
Haji & Emanuel - Take Me Away
Why "working for you" is killing the system
“Popular rule is not democracy, Anakin. It gives the people what they want, not what they need.”This line comes from a deleted scene from Attack of the Clones of all…
Friday night
If the last Friday-night music post was something that aged well over four or five years, well ... give this a spin.
3918…Best Joke Ever
Comes from Bill Maher and feautures two icons who died this year, one of them earlier this year, the other one who died today.The joke is that "Liz Taylor has…
A no longer radical, now reactionary campus: The SFSS CUPE Lockout
There’s an almost mythical status to the label that Simon Fraser University used to promote itself in 2005 during its 40th anniversary celebrations: the university was a “radical campus.” The…
News International Implodes Because of Women
Phone hacking is hacking for women. And as we all know, newspapers have been taken over by women. Gross generalization. Sure, whatever. :) Here is what smarter people are saying…
3917…And They All Had Jobs Too
She didn't mention that.She is Minnesota Congressperson Michelle Bachman who The Root reports signed an a typical conservative pledge called "The Marriage Vow -- A Declaration of Dependence Upon Marriage…
3916…South Sudan Independence Day
It is today there but tomorrow here and the celebrations in Ottawa are at Vincent Massey Park from 11 onward.This is a big deal, lots of speeches, entertainment and fun.Just…
3915…Culling The Herd In Onondaga
That's a town near Syracuse. I saw this piece in the Brain Injury Blog. Yeah, I read everything.In a story reported by The Post-Standard of Syracuse and the Associated Press,…
3914…I Don’t Know About Your Town But
In my town Ottawa and Gatineau we have, as the old joke goes, two seasons: winter and road construction.My question is why, considering the road construction season is so short,…
Friday night
Have a good night!
Stiff arm
I spent most of today at my dad's place, wielding heavy duty gardening gadgetry. My dad runs a gardening business and lately his place is proof of the saying about…
Saturday Photo: The Eure at Chartres
As the pace quickens in our struggle to get back inot our house, I find myself slipping off mentally into quieter times. This photo is from our trip to France…
CPCCA: a spectre is haunting Canada
—the spectre of anti-Semitism. The long-awaited Final Report of the so-called Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (CPCCA) is out at last. It’s more than a year late, but its…
What Obama can do about the debt ceiling
The big news item in the US, other than the Casey Anthony trial, has been the need for Congress to raise the national debt ceiling, in order to avoid defaulting…
Royal Robots?
Following the opening of the Calgary Stampede and yet another tedious photo-op – this time at the local zoo of all places, apparently to educate the Royal couple about how…