PASOK: Pan Hellenic Socialist Kleptocrats
“George Papandreou is not bought, he is rented. He sells public enterprises to the multinationals. He reduces wages, pensions and employment at the behest of the IMF. He turns over…
Simple Answers to Simple Questions
This could also be titled: Can't anybody here play this game? There's a post up at Let Freedom Rain based on a media story announcing the intention of the Liberal…
Cakes and Ale: A Review
I read Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham for the Slaves of Golconda bookclub. Written in 1930, it is narrated by the midlist writer William Ashenden. As a young man…
Saskatchewan Can Blame Premier Brad Wall For Allowing Terrible Mosquito Infestation To Get Worse Than It Should Be
2011 has been a wet year on the prairies. As a result, trillions of mosquitoes are breeding in every ditch, slough and creek in the province. You can't blame Premier…
Why not create an Open311 add-on for Ushahidi?
This is not a complicated post. Just a simple idea: Why not create an Open311 add-on for Ushahidi? So what do I mean by that, and why should we care?…
For Those Keeping Track
From David Gollob, Director of Communications, Canadian Human Rights Commission: The Commission did not accept any complaints under section 13 in 2010.
Death to diplomacy!
I'll give Sun Media this much: they're being slightly less partisan than I'd have expected in their bombast, following up their demand to fire a diplomat for the crime of…
Canada’s own Casey Anthony trial, except that this guy’s guilty beyond a reasonable doubt!
I thought it a travesty that no clear evidence to either exonerate or convict Casey Anthony was ever produced by the prosecution. In a case that involved the death of…
Climate Skeptics Misunderstand Us, Too
Heartland_Logo.png So recently, I’ve watched a few videos from the Heartland Institute conference on “Restoring the Scientific Method”—and it has been a fascinating experi...
Your Childhood – a Poll
Just curious….did you have a good childhood? If you’re reading this in a feed reader or email, you’ll need to visit www.knitnut.net to answer the poll question. Rest assured, all…
Too little too late? Liberals decide now is the time to start advertising war with Cons. Great timing!
I've been yelling for the last couple of years that the first thing the Liberals needed to do to beat the Cons was to raise funds to create effective ads.…
What would questioning disguised pacifists accomplish anyway? The Gaza flotilla’s mission is a humanitarian mission first and foremost
Reading Christopher Hitchens’s article, titled “Some questions for the ‘activists’ aboard the Gaza flotilla”, in Tuesday’s edition of the National Post, almost got me to write a letter to Mr.…
Fun with Numbers: Most Volatile Ridings
Unless Stephen Harper breaks his own fixed election date law (ha ha ha!), we'll have a new set of ridings for the 2015 election.So for kicks this summer, I'm looking…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for July 6, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Judge blasts Ottawa police over search - Ottawa Citizen -http://goo.gl/knvlVStrauss-Kahn Lawyers and Prosecution Set Meeting to Discuss Dismissal or Plea…
I can’t say that I am not enjoying this
While I often castigate Canada's Sun and Post Medias, not to mention the editorial board of the Globe, for their conservative bias there are few more yellow-toothed than those hacks…
Stephen Hawking: Human-Caused Climate Change Dire Threat To Future Of World
Renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has stated that climate change stands alongside the use of nuclear weapons as one of the greatest threats posed to the future of…
QotD: On Peter MacKay
The whole column by Paul Robinson is worth a read but I was particularly struck by this part: When Peter MacKay is, as so often, praised for being popular with…
The Problem And The Power Of Critical Thinking
Fellow blogger Orwell recently wrote a post entitled The capacity for critical thought – how do we build it? In it, he was challenging readers to brainstorm ways in which…
OpenMedia.ca Boycotts CRTC Hearing as the Commission Faces Charges of Bias
openmedia_logo.jpg July 6, 2011 – OpenMedia.ca is announcing its boycott of the CRTC's controversial hearing on over-the-top (OTT) content, which will determine whether online video services l...
Is Harper Planning to Wage War on Russia?
Ater invading Poland .... Oops! Wrong dicatator.After putting our soldiers in the most dangerous places in Afghanistan (A Soldier First, Rick Hillier) and blasting Libya back to the stone age,…