Rupert Murdoch fear mongers Robert Crumb from visiting Sydney
You don’t have to be under criminal investigation for tapping voicemails to be a corrupt organization. If you’re a news outfit, all you have to do is print yellowed, sensationalistic…
Culture wars
Michael Coren: “It’s not about race. It’s about culture”. Bullshit.
Dawg posted a video tonight I wish I had never seen. No, not a clip from the latest slasher flick. Worse. Michael Coren, using the meme begun by disgraced ‘historian’…
Who knew Sun TV News was such a welfare queen?
Dan Gardner calls this an “indecently enjoyable read”. I wholeheartedly agree. Too bad there is not more reporting like this about Fox News North (it really is). The summation (emphasis…
Montreal police dragging feet on investigating infamous Christianist Twitter troll ‘David Mabus’?
I’ve read the name ‘David Mabus’ a few times on Twitter, mostly in tweets from PZ Myers. Montrealer Mabus (real name: Dennis Marcuze) has made a name for himself by…
Oh Mr. Nicholls! I Do Believe Your Freudian Slip is Showing!
Oh, Mr. Gerry Nicholls, what have you done? Do you live or work in an Ivory Tower, completely isolated from any sense of reality? I know I don’t live in…
Is the Newsweek cover photo (and story title) of Michele Bachmann sexist?
That’s the charge being laid by conservative bloggers and NOW about this week’s cover photo of Michele Bachmann, which depicts her as she so often appears with wide eyes. I…
WI tea party CHEERS being blamed for causing S&P downgrade
It takes a special person to be proud of being the brunt of the blame from S&P downgrade, but the members of the Wisconsin tea party are such special people.…
S&P on downgrade: “…the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.”
Just in case you didn’t get that the first time around. This is a point the Democrats (and progressive media/bloggers need to hammer) for the next few weeks. But they…
More Onion than the Onion. Fox News reports on black hip hop birthday for Obama.
It’s been amusing, if not a little sad, to see the right wing trying to outdo each other criticizing Obama for having a birthday party. They’re all pissed but none…
Will Harper jeopardize Canada’s status as ‘lowest terror risk among western economies’?
Canada has been largely free from terror attacks experienced by other western nations at the hands of Islamic extremists, thanks in large part to the Liberals’ refusal to engage in…
Conrad Black: guilty as hell – of being a pig, a prig and a sleazy fraud.
The Daily Mail, another one of those disreputable papers from the UK, has a rather strange profile of the National Post (so appropriately yellow in its colour design) founder. Strange,…
Witch Hunt On Nycole Turmel Shows How Much of Canada Really Doesn’t Get The Bloc Quebecois, Forgets Certain Precedents, And Priorities Screwed
I’m still on the road, in Ford Nation. I thank my co-bloggers for keeping Sister Sage’s Musings current while I’m away. I have quick access to a hotel computer, so…
Mary Trapani Hynes AKA Next Mayor of Toronto?
Mary Trapani Hynes, a senior, was among the deputants who came to let Mayor Boss Hogg, his brother Donut Dougy and the rest of the clan know how they felt…
Ford Puppet Shows His Contempt For Constituents
As many Torontonians would know, today is the day City Council is having a meeting with constituents to discuss cutting ‘gravy’. Poor long suffering Giorgio Mammoliti, he apparently is longing…
What is This? The Most Right Wingnut Contest of Evul?
Boys ‘n’ girls, put your tinfoil hats on! It’s going to be a bumpy ride! We all know about Michael Coren, pretty much implying that those kids at the Norwegian…
Dougy Ford, Perhaps If You Actually Set Foot In a Library, You Might Learn Who Margaret Atwood Is
Oh, poor, long suffering Dougy Ford, city councillor, side kick to his brother Mayor Rob “Boss Hogg” Fordzilla. Always the bridesmaid, but not the mayor. He seems to be bitching…
Well, Well, I do Believe Somebody Touched a Nerve, Mr. Penninga
Wassamatter, Mr. Penninga? Somebody’s having a bad day, I see. Doncha just hate it when people when folks ask questions and think outside the box? Before you have a hissy…
Rob Ford, caught talking on cell phone while driving, gives mother and daughter the finger
Class. The new Toronto. The new millennium of unbridled Conservatism is upon us. They do what they want, when they want and the law be damned. With our media protecting…
No Jonathan Kay, Mark Steyn is not a “thoughtful, mainstream thinker”
Today’s NatPo column by Jonathan Kay shows how he is as guilty as any right wing journalist in exploiting the current climate of fear and hate against the left. He…
Conservatives: controlling the message is paramount even when it’s art
With echoes of Krista Erickson snaking her arms in imitation of dance, Harper is doing his own particular jig to stop artist Franke James from expressing her view of the…