In case you didn’t already think Rick Santorum was an ignorant jerk
Get a load of this: The GOP presidential hopeful recently attended a town hall at a Dublin, New Hampshire private school where he preached his wisdom on what, exactly, makes…
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Gritchik: 2011 in review
It’s only fitting that my first post of the new year, be a look back to the last. Being the nerd I am, I love analytics so here are the…
A Brief History of Plutocracy
Plutocracy has always been around us. So what’s a reasonable substitute?
I see the BC Liberals have learned from Harper’s Ignatieff attack ads
Watching the Canucks. Ad comes on real slick-like. I mean Conservative slick. It’s a BC Liberals ad attacking NDP’s Adrian Dix. I swear the ad could’ve been made by the…
Dark Orwellian Future: Top Secret America
Julian Assange isn’t the only person concerned that Facebook is the greatest spy machine ever created. There are lesser known surveillance nets and data mining underway. Did you know that…
911 Refresher
If you haven’t called 911 in a while, that’s a good thing. Since no one does it very often, it’s good to refresh your mind once in a while, so…
“…and every generation’s got to win it again”
I can’t remember whether we travelled by bus or in Joe’s silver diesel Rabbit. I don’t recall where we slept, ate, or how long we stayed, but my first visit…
Good Luck Hangover
“Good Luck Chuck” was on Netflix, and it’s every bit as uncomfortable as the critics said it was. It’s a mean spirited Hollywood vehicle to show a lot of topless…
2011 Blog in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was…
Perth & environs, Lanark Cty., Ontario, Canada – December, 2011
Perth & environs, Lanark Cty., Ontario, Canada – December, 2011, a set on Flickr. It looked like it was going to be a green (more like brown) holiday in eastern…
Rob Ford’s 911 problem
Classy! (Photo from Dammit Janet.) There’s something wrong with Rob Ford. We all know he’s trash. But there’s an undercurrent of rage surrounding the man that’s almost Alec Baldwinish. Marg…
A Leaky New Year
Anonymous has cracked into Stratfor. What’s that? It’s a Shadow CIA that kept customer’s credit card info unencrypted and allowed mysterious “Robin Hood Hackers” access to millions of sensitive emails.…
Some people shouldn’t have children
We decided to see a movie tonight (apparently most of Toronto did, too), specifically, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. For those of you unfamiliar with the books or haven’t…
Proposed Public School Class: Independent Living
Public education would be a whole lot better if we encouraged kids to study ‘independent living’.
Excited Delirium News Updates
East Grand Rapids offers $100001 to settle lawsuit with Tasered … MLive.com He died of a rare case of excited delirium syndrome, or acute exhaustive mania, the pathologist ruled. In…
Text of 1997 speech by Stephen Harper to US right-wing think tank
For anyone surprised by Harper’s moves and plans now that he has a majority, it is enlightening to read this speech our current PM made when he was VP of…
Oh Nuts
“Mixed Nuts” was on after Scrooged, so I tried watching it. I also finished watching “Taken for a Ride” which is a documentary explaining how GM destroyed public transportation systems.
The Year That Was: Canadians Politics in 2011
What a year 2011 was. Who would have thought in January that the Conservatives would, by May, have a majority government? That the Bloc, so long a dominant force in…
The Magnificent Seven: Stephen Harper’s seven new Senators leaked
STARRING: Shotgun * Blogging T * * Ezzy * Huffer * Wenthataway * The Poet * Blatched The Conservatives’ new best friend, the Canadian wing of the Huffington Post, has…
A Giraffe Hunter in a Ditch is Worth Two in the Bush. Or Something.
by matttbastard Newt teh Perfessor outdoes himself on the future of gender in an excerpt from a mid-90s lecture: Traditionally, he said, “if combat means living in a ditch, females…