An Occasional Zorpheous
Reading the CPC. NDP, Greens and yes, even other Liberals blogs, it can be said that everyone want a piece of the liberal corpse. Then I remembered this old cartoon,…
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Personally I Blame Harper For This #0007
So the Christian Fundie-Retards have been embolden by the Rightwing Majority Rapture of orgasmic goodness know as Raging PMS and the SeePeeSee. They want everyone to know that abortion is…
TorStar Op-ed: Liberals have to create a next political centre
This past Saturday the Toronto Star published the following piece by Taylor Owen and myself on its op-ed page. Thought I'd put it here for those who might have missed…
Disaster: Slave Lake Burning To The Ground
With relatively little news published Sunday on the wildfires raging in northern Alberta, many Canadians will awake Monday morning to learn with surprise and shock the town of Slave Lake…
All’s Not Right: Splitting The Conservative Vote
People who are willing to listen to me rant and foam at the mouth about politics (not as large a population as you might think) have heard two consistent messages…
Huckabee Won’t Run.
One of the most like able and most suggestion as the solution to beat Obama in 2012 was Huckabee, But this Saturday Huckabee said that he wouldn't run. Now the…
After a jump to the left, the Liberal Party needs to take a step to the right.
Though I disagree with the notion that under Stephane Dion & Michael Ignatieff, the Liberal Party has moved ideologically to the left, I do believe that both leaders seemed to…
Facebook, Supporter of Gov’t Secrecy and Against Individual Privacy, Caught Anonymously Smearing Google
New York Time provided an insight to Facebook’s position on individual’s privacy: For years, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, has extolled the virtue of transparency, and he built…
Jabba The Ford – Toronto’s New Election Crime Overlord?
Now it’s just a question, not a statement of fact. Our corpulent Overlard Overlord seems to be running into some trouble with our Provincial Municipal Election Laws in the Toronto…
Akaash Maharaj: A Party of the Many
As long as I have been involved in the Liberal Party, it has been my conviction that for all its strengths, its one fundamental weakness has been an unhealthy obsession…
May Responds to Expense Query
Elizabeth May in a tweet just now responded to my query last week about travel expenses for a recent coast to coast trip May took to attend a memorial. @ElizabethMay…
Personally I Blame Harper for This #0006
So good old Tony Clement, our Industry Ministry, is going to invite the Oily Bigwigs to Ottawa to explain to Canadians why oil/gas prices go up and go down,… but…
The Best and Worst Thing About Each Canadian Political Party
What is your favourite and least favourite thing about Canada’s federal parties? As a Canadian who has intently followed US politics and is now endeavoring to take an active interest…
Why Cats Elect Dogs
Alternate Voting - or AV - will have massive implications with respect to voting in Canada (and will hopefully marginalize all of those who vote for dogs instead of cats).
The Wall Street Triple-Penetration
The Young Turks have ran a number of stories on how major investment banks have gamed the US and global economic systems. In the video presented below, they discuss how…
PC Party Confusion
A word association test: If handed a federal election ballot that displays a candidate's name beside the "PC Party" label - what do you make of that? Some may mistakenly…
NDP Leaders: Stop Sugar-Coating Brosseau’s Election
As a Canadian secular progressive who has followed US politics closely for a few years and is just now making a serious effort to get into Canadian politics, I have…
Dear 16 year old Me
One bad sunburn before you are 18 doubles your chance of developing melanoma... This is a very powerful video. I'm showing it to my children, tonight.
On Communication and National Board of Directors
On Monday night the Canucks scored twice in the first period, apparently. I say apparently because I wasn’t watching the hockey game, I was on a conference call with twenty…