3887…My Un Heroes: CSBC Haters
Re Le Affaire Erickson-Gillis, Peter Worthington in the SUNs reports that the story on SUN TV "...provoked so many complaints to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (some 4,300 of them…
Temper. Temper. Justice Prosser grabs reporter’s microphone
It's looking more and more like the allegations against Wisconsin judge David Prosser that he has violence issues are bearing fruit. When the embattled justice was asked by a reporter…
3886…My Hero: Krista Erickson
A couple of nights ago on SUN TV the only hot woman on Canuckistanian TV Krista Erickson just went off on Margie Gillis who, and coz it isn't on TSN…
Boy if I was trying to do something serious
Like, say, get media attention for a real issue, like say the flotilla to Gaza, the fight against the dismantling of Greece's social programs, or even trying to get across…
3885…My Hero: Margie Gillis
You probably have heard the story but it bears repeating.A couple of nights ago on SUN TV the only hot woman on Canuckistanian TV Krista Erickson just went off on…
3884…CFL Is Back
Nearing halftime on TSN it is the Als up 24/10 over B. C. in MTL.WFDS
The Often Occasional Blogger
I know I haven’t been blogging much lately,… but I really have a good excuse for it,… actually it is more of a series of excuses caused by one event…
Today’s obsession: Coconut curry soup.
I started making this a few months back and am doing it again tonight by request. As with most stuff I make it has been receiving some "revisions". This soup…
The Mess We’re In
One of the more common themes in my recent writing is that, when it comes down to the challenges confronting our country and our people, we cannot depend on our…
Your Daily Nazi: News For Jews!
1) The Dykes and Trans People for Palestine aren't the Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, but they do plan to march during Pride week, and they will ... be using the…
Ignorance and the Political System. . . .
I don't think one has to be profoundly knowledgable about history and political theory to be a political representative. I think, as a general rule, the more you know the…
More on the AECL farce
From the smart folks at Enviralment:Montreal-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin has begrudgingly stepped up to buy the commercial arm of the crown corporation. The firm is no stranger to CANDU technology,…
Canada Causes Cancer: Government & Industry Collude to Keep Asbestos Off UN Hazardous Chemical List
asbestos-bangladesh.jpg Last week, the Canadian government successfully and unilaterally stonewalled efforts to list chrysotile asbestos as a hazardous chemical at a United Nations conference in ...
"A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News"
Whenever I hear a Fox News (or one of its northern version) defender rail on about how the network is 'fair and balanced' and in no way related to the…
Being Oppositional, ‘Socialist’ Filibuster Drinking Games, Pandering to the Misinformed, Attempting To Debunk Some Myths
Finally, I post my thoughts about the NDP filibuster of Stevie Spiteful’s draconian Back to work legislation of locked out Canada Post workers and the press coverage it has received,…
On foreseeable futures
In posting about the DND's "First Look" at where Canada is headed, Mike DeSouza focuses on a seemingly throwaway sentence mentioning the Green Party. But the more striking part of…
I’ll Just Leave This Here …
For me, "vision" is perhaps the emptiest and most ill-used word in politics. It's easy for someone to wake up in the middle of the night and say he or…
Thespian as Politician ≥ the Political Theatre Press Conference
It is amazing the lengths that politicians will go to in order to give a rather mundane message a twist, a hook, a pull, some pizzazz, or often, a point.…