How Wired missed the real Assange/Manning story
A couple of days ago, Bradley Manning celebrated his birthday behind bars for the second year in a row. He’s still awaiting trial, with no word on when it will…
The United States of Amnesia
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Fidel’s Guinness record
Courtesy of Cubadebate, we have the following amusing little item to celebrate today: The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, is the person subject to the greatest number…
Stupid Sex Tricks: Beds are for sleeping, subways are for screwing
Subway sex at Spadina Station. Only in TO, folks. From the Toronto Star, in both cases, we have the following funny Canadian contradiction. First, the sad news that we’re not…
What is up with Ol’ Pineapple Face?
Russia Today has the backgrounder; the CBC has the story: Former military strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega was flown home to Panama on Sunday to be punished once again for crimes…
#RIPHugoChavez = #Twitterfail
Riddle me this: When is a Trending Topic NOT a trending topic? Courtesy of Patria Grande, here comes a wake-up call for all you internauts who love Venezuela, and who…
Economics for Dummies: Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
A little holiday hymn from the true gods and messiahs of the world: the 1%ers. Hallelujah!
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Mike check on Aisle 4!
Here you go, folkies…your iconic image from the craptastic retail event known as Black Friday (also known, by those in the know, as Buy Nothing Day): This young woman got…
The state-sponsored murder of Pablo Neruda
The official version of Pablo Neruda’s death goes something like this: World famous Chilean poet and Nobel winner dies of metastatic prostate cancer, age 69. But recent investigative findings put…
Quotable: Sir John A. Macdonald on US imperialism
Image by Tigana Too. Yes, my Latin American amig@s, it’s true. Nosotr@s, l@s canadienses, somos el OTRO patio trasero de los EEUU. We’re the US’s OTHER backyard, and we’ve been…
Aloha, APEC. Love, the 99%.
Hawaiian singer Makana actually slipped this one below the radar on the 1%er leaders yesterday. Here’s the story: Honolulu – A change in the programmed entertainment at last night’s Asia-Pacific…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Sexy Back
Seen on Facebook: This was, according to my source, taken at Occupy Austin. No word on whether that’s a real tattoo or just penned on for the protest’s duration, but…
Dear Mississippi…
Sorry to resort to pictures, but it seems that an awful lot of anti-choicers have difficulty reading. Amazing how many of these unsentient adults there are in Mississippi Goddamn, and…
An open letter to Brendan O’Neill
Dear Brendan O’Neill: You, sir, are a fucking idiot. How’d you like it if I found out where you lived? What would you say if I ferreted out everything about…
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…
Beware that “haunted house”. And “Jesus Ween”, too.
Christ, what is it with the Religious Reich? Bad enough that they had to steal all our Old Religion holidays out from under us and try to turn them into…
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…
Rosemary’s Boner
Poor Simon Romero. You just have to feel sorry for the guy. He doesn’t ever get out of the rich-folks’ ghetto of eastern Caracas, does he? Seems he’s found himself…