Piñera’s prostitute
Oh, Chile. What is happening to you? When the capitalist whores are literally coming out of the woodwork, you KNOW you’ve got a corrupt, ruined country. And look! Here comes…
Filthy Stinking Rich
Harper Government™ in pocket of NRA, gun manufacturers. Also, stupid on crime.
It’s getting shittier than ever to be a Canadian, and we are all hanging our heads and shaking them in shame. Because “free” trade (note the quotes) isn’t enough to…
Quotable: Dwight D. Eisenhower on the social safety net
Man, that Ike. What a commie-pinko socialist. How the hell did he ever become a Republican? (And speaking of which: Why is that party not deader than the friggin’ dodo…
Why Iceland isn’t in the news nowadays
Michael Hudson has some hints: More at The Real News Basically, it has a lot to do with fucking those who have fucked you, and using a splintery broomstick to…
Stupid Sex Tricks: Banking and wanking, together at last
No. Oh, no. NO: In case you were wondering what that was all about, Copyranter explains: Komerční Banka is a member of the Société Générale Group, and is one of…
Quotable: Kieran Bonner on the banality of evil
“We are not suffering from a secret cabal of evil masterminds who plotted to bring down the world economy. The problem was not secrecy. On the contrary, the ballooning debt…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Happy 1-month birthday, OWS!
Occupy Wall Street is now one month old, and still going strong. It’s also spreading across the continent and around the world. Virtually all major cities in North America (and…
Fear of a white shirt
A whiteshirt (the now infamous Anthony Bologna, police inspector, NYPD) pepper-sprays a group of peaceful women protesters at Occupy Wall Street. You can hear one of the blue-shirted officers say…
Teabaggers come to Ontario. Ontarians properly horrified.
“Canadian Klansman” tapestry by Barbara Heller. O, Canada. You’ve certainly seen more than your share of imports from our neighbors to the south. Some, like the Vietnam-era draft dodgers and…
Economics for Dummies: It’s still going on
More at The Real News And it will go on until further notice. (Speaking of which, Wall Street, you are now being put on.)
Short ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx takes on Wall St.
The Stumpy Cat has been rather busy of late, chasing mice, moles, voles and chipmunks out in the garden. But she’s sticking her cyber-head in now to meow at me.…
Grope & Flail blames Chinese news agency for Tory zipper problems
Ahem. A little mood music, maestro David: And now, the sordid story: In his short political career, Bob Dechert has risen through the ranks of the Harper government to assume…
Payola: Not just for $ and P anymore!
A while back, I posted about how a certain ratings agency takes payola. Now, it looks like another one also does: A former senior analyst at Moody’s has gone public…
Economics for Dummies: Another horrible trapped-miner story
Yes, this is satire. But it has a very large, uncracked grain of truth in it. Can you spot it?
Is the LAHT a bunch of Koch-suckers?
I’ve always had my suspicions about a certain crappy “news” outlet pretentiously calling itself the “Latin American Herald Tribune”. I never did trust it; there was something of a rightist…
Short ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx looks at London
If the Stumpy Cat is meowing and pawing at my leg, I know there is something she wants me to address. And sure enough, our cyber-kitty friend has found several…
If a bankster falls in the forest…
…it makes the odd news headlines: “Shark in a boat” seems so last month. Now it’s “shark in the forest.” A call to police reporting an unusual odor on Thursday…
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?
Ahem. Mood music, maestros: Thank you, fellas, that was…uh…lovely. Okay. Here goes. I saw this comment piece, by someone hilariously named Ally Fogg, in the Grauniad last night. It was…