Three Archy poems by Don Marquis
pete the parrot and shakespeare i got acquainted with a parrot named pete recently who is an interesting bird pete says he used to belong to the fellow that ran…
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Alerts to Threats-In 2013 Europe
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Syria and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be…
Vancouver Islanders Want To Form Their Own Province!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger In our latest unscientific snapshot poll conducted by the Cowichan Conversations team of researchers and analysts it has been clearly established that Islanders want out! We are…
Fraser Institute Faces Ridicule Over Child Rearing Cost Study
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Fraser Institute lives to conduct self serving, right wing studies, analysis and such, generally designed to be instructive to the ears of right wing politicians and…
Making People Laugh in The New Yorker
The New Yorker is one of my favourite magazines and the first thing I do when I open it is to read all the cartoons. Some are hilarious and others…
Wake Up America
From a study that reveals increased risk of death for young coffee drinkers who have 4 cups a day or more, to a man who woke up America to the…
WallAnt audit has opposition demanding PM response
Inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/08/14/pol-wallin-senate-audit-ndp-dewar-turmel.html http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/08/13/stephen-harper-pamela-wallin-video_n_3749071.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
Ed Asner’s Shot at the Rich Crooked Big Business and Wealthy Tax Cheats (Animation)
This is a classic expose of the rich and powerful tax cheats enjoying a free ride in the United States. This applies through Canada as well.
Putting the ‘t’ in Church
Took kids to the Trinity church in #Boston. My son (w/ #autism) asks: 'Why is there a giant 't' up there?' He says the best things sometimes— Kathleen O'Grady (@kathleenogrady)…
Experience Regina
I know it’s a joke song, but I like it anyway. It’s so bad, it’s good. And I finally found the original video.
GopherNado
Thanks to the Hamilton Tigercats for this amazing SharkNado spoof of the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ mascot Gainer the Gopher. – Hat tip to John Gormley
What Conservatives Should Ask About The Economy
If civilization’s value could be summed up in Trillions of dollars, how many would it be? Is $60 Trillion everything we know? Let’s assume it’s $100 Trillion for fun. If…
Phobia This! Phobia That!
I am coming to agree with my daughter that I deserve the sobriquet Grumpy. Case in point was seeing the entry below on a Facebook entry: How many homophobes does…
What in Hell…?
Hades, you know, isn’t a place. It’s a guy. The Greek god of the underworld. His territory consists of a bunch of domains, including the rather unpleasant Tartarus, where souls…
The Enemies List
Canadians barely lifted an eyebrow in surprise when it was revealed that our Prime Minister had an “enemies list” compiled as a warning to newly-minted cabinet ministers laying out who…
Canadian Taxpayers Federation Want To Blow Up The Senate-Video
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The Canadian Taxpayers have embraced humour , satire and a little hucksterism to promote dismantling the Canadian Senate. Their goal is to have a referendum…
Little Victor Update | Finally, he can fly
A few days ago Victor and Andrew, his older brother, were playing what was essentially ‘motionless tag’ in the living room. Basically it was Victor tapping Andrew’s shoulder, then yelling…
Wave At Saturn Friday #saturnpic
Are you shy about having your photo taken? What if you’ll be an indistinguishable smudge on a pale blue dot, then are you still shy? If so, don’t go outside…
PRISM: Does Government Have a Sense of Humour?
No. I never realized the famous voice that said, “You’ve Got Mail” on AOL, was actually some guy from the NSA. Do you ever feel like no one is listening…
Social Media Intelligence
I’m so sick of the government reading all of my Facebook status updates, and never liking any of them. (Seen on a graphic going around Facebook) SOCMINT “It had been…