The Curious Case of Toulouse Le Grandfig, Graphic Designer (Part Two)
Entry 2: Dictated: April 26, 1951 (continued from Part One) For our first session, I thought I would try to understand Grandfig’s psychosis through the medium of his art. I…
Even The New York Times Gets Cot–Ulp, Caught–in the Spell Check Trap
Here's the latest from a New York Times feature on the mistakes they make:A quote about the DSK case: "While the American justice system has its origins in British common…
Stupid Sex Tricks: Greece Has Talent
OMG, what do they put in the ouzo? It makes guys musical in all the, uh, most interesting places: Very nice, fellas! Do you do requests? I wanna hear “Zorba’s…
Stephen Harper and the Canada Elections Act
11 years ago today, Stephen Harper filed a Statement of Claim with the Court of Queen's Bench in Alberta, demanding that numerous provisions of the Canada Elections Act which related…
Calgary School, Chicago School and the Committee on Social Thought
Canada's neoconservative movement has been slow to reach awareness in Canada, though throughout the 1990's, neoconservatism was a term used by many journalists and political pundits, to separate the conservatism…
Stephen Harper choked?
Some hackers managed to break into Conservative Party site and left a press-release about Harper’s choking.““The fake news release said Harper choked on a hash brown while eating breakfast with…
Nightmare on Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
The intrepid labradore takes yet another slice at the official government rationale for Muskrat Falls by showing the electricity rates Nalcor has been charging for the period 2005 to 2009.…
Health queue jumping
Don’t be surprised at health queue jumping. We have a medico monopoly in all of its aspects. In this type of atmosphere there can be no health truths and no…
Peace, Dude (It Pays)
The Global Peace Index asks us to consider the economic value of peace. Hint: It's in the trillions.
Boiling Blood of Photographers Everywhere
YouTube is never short of videos showing police and security guards pushing their weight around enforcing a ridiculous notion that the way to catch terrorists is to harass photographers in…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for June 07, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Why lawyers will love iOS 5 - http://goo.gl/s71RsSettlement Approved in Canadian Music Industry "Pending Lists" Lawsuit - http://goo.gl/sljlKOfficer jailed for…
Most Exciting Ridings in Canada
We've now had 4 elections under the current 308 riding electoral map, a period over which the Canadian political landscape has completely transformed itself.2004:2011:Still, that doesn't mean every local election…
Regrets – its never too late to fix it!
How many of us live with regrets? I expect most of us do. Bronnie Ware was a palliative care nurse for many years who has compiled a list of the…
Rich Albertans jump emergency care queue lines thanks to Cons
Is anybody really surprised? Rich, white Canadians voted for the Conservatives. There's a reason. Look at Alberta, the model the Cons have used for the rest of Canada, whether we…
No Comment: Campaign Life Coalition
“Then we have the enormous demographic cost of the 3.2 million Canadians killed by abortion since 1969. By now, these individuals would be in the workforce, paying taxes and generating…
Syrian lesbian blogger abducted in Damascus (update)
Fellow blogger, Amina Araf, who writes the popular A Gay Girl in Damascus under the pseudonym, Amina Abdallah, was reportedly kidnapped by armed men on Monday night. Holding dual American…
Should We Keep The Royals?
The Royals are coming to Canada this summer. With the comments from people like Amir Khadir saying that the Royals are Parasite's. It may bring to Question on the Issue…
Rae 1, Layton 0
Let's have some post-budget fun in bleak majority land! Let's compare the Rae and Layton reactions to the budget: "Opposition slams Tories’ ‘groundhog budget’." (Well, some of us look at…
Rehash budget
The second time is hardly twice as nice as we found with a barely warmed-over rehash of the previous budget, which was released some 76 days ago. There were only…