Cross-posted from Irregular Climate John Cook, a regular contributor to the podcast and the mastermind behind SkepticalScience.com, along with Haydn Washington an environmental scientific have written the must read book:…
So apparently every year for the next three years the federal government is going to find $4 billion in operating expenses that it just doesn't need to spend to eliminate…
The beginning of a slow news week, the rantings of an angry fall-guy, or the first tremor of an earthquake that could shake the foundation of a 40-year political dynasty?…
Hotel maids in New York turned out en masse to protest Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a legal hearing. I wonder if the French press considers things like this to be “barbaric”…
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Hark! What’s that I hear? A stump-tailed kitty meowing? That can only mean one thing: Ms. Manx has been prowling the Internets again. Whatcha got for us, kitty? Ooooo…good stuff:…
Alberta Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky parries a thrust by former Alberta Health Services CEO Stephen Duckett. Alberta politicians and other public figures may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Mr.…
Yes, it'll take time to break the habits that have formed over the past few years - and it may well be that the Harper Cons will continue to stonewall…
Stress causes men and women to respond differently to risky decision making, with men charging ahead for small rewards and women taking their time, according to a new study in…
Stress causes men and women to respond differently to risky decision making, with men charging ahead for small rewards and women taking their time, according to a new study in…
via vaido.aminus3.com The light here and colour is so vivid, it makes me think of something you can taste. Filed under: Miscellany
A lot has happened since the height of the Stop The Meter campaign: we went through an election, we saw the emergence of a pro-Internet community and pro-Internet candidates, the…
Perhaps we will see foreign forces intervene in Syria to protect civilians -- as in Libya? (In case it's not obvious, this comment is made as heavy irony)http://bbc.in/kW6S0K "Later, a…
Machiavelli has nothing on these guys. Let’s deconstruct for a moment the central message of today’s 2011 Federal Budget, Take 2: “Storm clouds are gathering in the world economy. We…
A lot of politicos are missing the Progressive Bloggers aggregator. Well, in fact a lot of the bloggers who run through the Prog Blog site are alive and well and…
The wiener was Weiner's.
St. Jean Baptiste Church and Rectory are the most familiar buildings in the Town of Morinville. On March 6, 2011 I wrote about the situation in my hometown of Morinville,…
Here's my main reason for making transit free. We have to have transit for people who can't drive or can't afford to drive. But currently, transit is worse for the…
1. John Alexander Macdonald – Amazing Specialist 2. Alexander Mackenzie – Insane Hunter 3. John Abbott – Respected Wizard 4. John Sparrow David Thompson – Dynamic Desperado 5. Mackenzie Bowell…
I tuned into a rebroadcast of this morning’s the CBC’s the Current while cleaning the kitchen this evening which had an unusually good documentary on the problem of youth unemployment;…
