Time to revive a dormant feature. Here’s the tough guy, pepper-spraying unarmed students. Can’t help but notice the contrast: students sitting peacefully and silently get pepper-sprayed in the face. Students…
It's a straightforward question: what are people talking about? What's capturing their attention and imaginations? Public conversation. Nothing gives you a better sense of a community or a society than…
It's a big man who can start a national column with an admission that he got it wrong.This little corner's been relatively silent on the whole Occupy thing, but now…
When President Obama proposed higher taxes on the very wealthy this week, Republicans were apoplectic. Once again, they screamed, "Class Warfare." A look at the numbers exposes that lie. Paul…
While CK’s on the road, she’s invited me to blog and cross-post here. So I’m recycling this tasty little item, which I found via @NaomiAKlein. (They say she’s polarizing ……
Serge Halimi: Europe’s wakeup call - Le Monde diplomatique - English editionWhen the balance that keeps labour and capital in relative equilibrium gets trashed (or more likely in this context,…
The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling - NYTimes.comOK, can we do a couple of things for starters?1. Lose the illusion that Obama's got any balls, or that he's in any…
Late-night submissions on a heavy Sunday night ...I thought I'd seen, heard and read it all by now.That worthless piece of shit used dum-dum bullets. The cherry on the shit…
While many members of the chattering class have heralded Stephen Harper's election as the beginning of a bright and beautiful future, Linda McQuaig has always seen it for what it…
Well the filibuster is finished and the Conservatives have gotten their way. There is nothing new in that. It is something we will have to face over the next few…
What would you do if you had a shaky economy with not great employment numbers and you want to balance the books? Well if you are the Harper government, you…
I thought about a stronger title for this post, but that might have required a nasty loaded word like, oh ... "bias." Anyhow, this isn't intended to be a factual…
