The staggering ignorance of the public on Iran
A new CBS/Opinion Research poll indicates that 71% of Americans believe that Iran already has a nuclear weapon. Sigh. While it certainly should not be a surprise anymore given numerous…
Ignorance
One Town’s War on Gay Teens | #uspoli #lgbt
One Town’s War on Gay Teens | Politics News | Rolling Stone: “Asked on a radio program whether the anti-gay agenda of her ilk bore any responsibility for the bullying…
A Simple Statement Of (Rationalist/Atheist) Creed
It is high time to realize that it is not wise to continue indulging irrational, ideology-driven, religious-driven, science-rejecting, mendacious, folks by allowing them to spew their bullshit without being called…
Christie Blatchy Blatchford Misses John Wayne And Other Machismo–Plus Other Bonus Tracks
Poor Chrissie, down time from hanging around the Shafia trial and sounding “honour killing” dog whistles is proving not to suit her too much. Her latest column in the Nasty…
Tom Flanagan: Time For Climate Change Deniers to Come Out of The Closet
Yep, ol’ Tom is a denier and proud of it, boys ‘n’ girls! He also wants all deniers to ‘come out of the closet’! Er, Tom, hasn’t that ship already…
That’s Very Christian of You, Dr. Jabba The Roy Eappen
Wow! I guess that true Christian charity really only begins at home for those right wingnutz who only worship the altar of greed, don’t it Dr. Roy? Yes, the ‘good’…
Detroit hate rally, via Arizona News …
Detroit prayer rally draws protests - Arizona News from USA Today:'via Blog this'Ignorant hateful superstition? Check.Racism? Check.Religious intolerance? Check.Homophobia? Misogyny? Fundamentalist fetus fetishism? Yep. All there.Sandbags along the bor...
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. Karl Popper
Quebecor And RLQ’s Chou-Chou, Eric Duhaime Has Hit a New Low–Enough With The Canadian Arrogant Complacency!
Yes, that would be the same Eric Duhaime, the one who begged the feds, not once, but twice, to somehow intervene in the construction scandal woes in la Belle province,…
Department of I could’ve told you that: Marijuana prohibition fuels gang violence
Why does it always take scientists, educators and experts to tell the government, media and the captains of industry that what they are doing is counter productive to a safe,…
Sorry if The Occupy Movement Puts a Kink In Your Plans, Mr. Mayor
Believe it or not, I’m not talking about Mayor Boss Hogg and sidekick Donut Dougy. No, I’m talking about Mayor Gregor Robertson of Vancouver. You see, boys ‘n’ girls, Mayor…
Now, Peggy Wente, It’s Not Nice to Slam An Ideological Sister Like Kathy Shaidle
Vintage Peggy Wente. She does prove that she is, indeed, Chrissie Blatchford’s sob sister, along with Tash Kheiriddin. Peggy, of course, misses the point of the #occupy movement. What a…
Apology Of A Poseur
(The following was inspired by Deepak Chopra's quackery-laden and hypocritically self-serving review of Richard Dawkins' book, The Magic of Reality. Enjoy).I find myself saddened - yet also outraged - by…
In The World According To ‘Pro-Lifers’ It’s Best To Just Let Women Die
In some cases, horrific, gory deaths at that. Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, with every fetus fetish bill Rethuglicans, with the help of some ‘friendly’ Democrats, they pass or attempt to…
Nice Little ‘Manifesto’ You Got There, But, I’m Going To Burst Your Little Bubble–You ARE Part of the 99%
Boys ‘n’ girls, let’s give this college senior a big hand here! No, really! They’re making it on their own without any help from anyone on very little! Or so…
Stay klassy Flyers fans
Ah the city of brotherly love. We knew Philly sports fans hated Santa Claus, but who would have imagined that they would boo an anti-cancer campaign? Tweet The Rev. Paperboy…
Canada under Harper: education falling behind other countries
Wot’s the big deel about ejucation anyway. Like tryin to fix that fony climate change, it’s only going to impeed the rappture. TORONTO – Canada has an “enormous vacuum” at…
What Sick And Disturbed People Indeed–And Let’s Not Forget Hypocrisy–Rant Alert!
With all the media talk on Liberal – NDP merger, this morning’s Gang of 4 with Tea-party Tommy Schnurmacher, Kimmeee Fraser & replacing the absent Trude the Prude Mason was…
The Darkness Strikes Back
I've begun a series of video-essays on YouTube (my channel is here) titled "Welcome to our Semi-Dark Age". The first episode is now up (in three parts, due to time…
David Olive (@TheGrtRecession), Team Ford, and that whole ‘deserve’ thing again
With this blog post at the Star, David Olive goes on a bit of a roll, getting in some pretty good zingers at Mayor Stupid and Brother Stupider.One can't argue…