Lawrence Solomon’s Radiation Holocaust
I don’t pay a great deal of attention to National Post columnist and climate change denialist Lawrence Solomon, who, if you can believe it, is actually dumber than Margaret Wente.…
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Globalization, Literally Speaking
What is this thing called “globalization?” To be absolutely precise, it’s the word that took over discourse about the global economy and pretty much everything else for what seemed like…
Cattle Starved for Globalization & to Preserve Self
A few weeks ago, my friend Seong (he’s from Korea), told me about the effects of Globalization on South Korean farmers. With cheap beef flooding into the country, farmers have…
Catholic Schools Unveil Their Tax-Paid GSA Replacements
The Ontario Ministry of Education has long recommended that all schools offer student-run Gay Straight Alliances. GSAs intend to improve the lives of GLBT students, giving them positive role models,…
Favourite Poems LXVII
A poem for a Saturday morning. Just because. To Winter O winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not…
As far as I can Throne ‘em…
I read in the Times Colonist today that the editorial board is rather miffed that the Premier is going to be announcing her agenda for the session via a radio…
The Urban Transit Blues
I was made aware a few days ago that HRM is enduring a transit strike – a few people I know don’t own vehicles and have some level of dependence…
Why Offbeat?
Why would CBC post a story about a major census mistake, likely indicative of a widespread counting problem, as “offbeat” news? This is potentially big news, with no fewer than…
A Friday Tune – The Front Bottoms
I’m really starting to like these guys…
Update on Thessalon and St. Joseph Island
The facts as we now know them: Despite what the hospital web site says there are no lab facilities at the Mathews Memorial Hospital or the Thessalon Hospital. Neither has…
Getting perspective on CO2 emissions
I’ve just put up a tool at YouSustain called How Much CO2 Is That?, which I think is pretty neat. You can enter (or pick) an amount of CO2 emissions…
Greetings from the Centre of the Universe
Since my last post a dog’s age ago, I have moved to the City that Never Shuts the Hell Up – Toronto, Ontario. I’m not exactly on the coast, or…
Honey, I Scalded the Kids
I don’t care for coffee. I don’t make this a secret, even though I probably should, since non-coffee drinkers are often looked at as some sort of aliens who are…
Surreal Morning
I hate it when the day starts off non-Euclidian, and then just gets weirder. It’s a straight line to humor at Alltop.
And now, for something completely different: A Lesson in Spanish, Civility, Hypocrisy and General Douchebaggery with Ezra Levant and Sun News
A few weeks back, Ezra Levant dropped the F-bomb on television. Well, more or less. He did it in Spanish, in the phrase “Chinga tu Madre.” It means what you…
The Neanderthal Agenda
Yes, that’s right. Now that PMSH has his much coveted majority, that’s where we’re heading. One of his backbench mouth-breathers is introducing a private member’s bill to study when exactly…
Improve Your Mood
Biking to work improves your mood. It also gives you a better perspective on life, and helps you get enough daily exercise to avoid some of life’s more terrible ailments.…
Gay Soldier in Afghanistan Receives Death Threat
Gays in the military isn’t exactly a new thing for Canada, but you might not know it from the experiences of Andrew McLean, a Warrant Officer working at Kandahar Airfield.…
Help Wanted
NDP newbie MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau is seeking a Parliamentary Assistant. I was a little hard on Ms. Brosseau during last spring’s federal election. I don’t apologize for it –…
Reading as Liberation
A couple of weeks ago, it was reported that in Arizona, the Tucson Unified School District had suspended the teaching of Mexican-American studies, banned the teaching of certain books…