Tired of getting ripped off
Perhaps it’s because I’ve been really, really poor (which now seems like a lifetime ago) or perhaps it’s because I don’t like wasting money or maybe even because I hate…
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Nurse, Interrupted
A pretty interesting video from Beth Boynton RN on what I call status interrupticus, the incessant and often needless interruptions nurses deal with when performing duties requiring critical thinking and…
Get Mad At SaskPower
I don’t know why I’m mad today at SaskPower. It’s not like they’ve gone out of their way to piss me off lately. I simply started thinking about how unjust…
Media’s anti-Occupy stance revealed. More than half of Canadians support the movement.
By reading 90% of the Canadian media, you’d have thought the people who Occupied cities across Canada and the world were unemployable dirty fucking hippies intent on violence and rape.…
A right-wing blogger’s take on feminism
Slithering through the right-wing blogosphere – from Vox Populi via Instapundit to Canada’s proud wingnut Canadian Cincinnatus – is this revealing but puzzling comment about feminism, using the tragedy of…
The Focus of the Federal Budget Must Be Jobs, Not Cuts.
The Mark have published a pre Budget commentary from yours truly.
An Open Letter on SOPA/PIPA to Minister Baird
Dear Minister Baird; I am writing to express my concerns over two pieces of legislation that are currently under consideration by the United States Congress, SOPA (H.R. 3261) and PIPA…
Showing off WordPress
I’m showing the President of the South Zone Community Gardens a quick demonstration of the power of WordPress Content Management System.
Cleaning Up Links
Speaking of the end of posting at Nurse XY, I was looking over my blogroll the other day and was surprised by the number of blogs moribund or otherwise defunct.…
Map reading equipment
Early on in my courtship with the man himself we still hadn’t figured out the best way to drive from Eastern Ontario to Western Massachusetts. Mapquest would have us go…
Random thoughts on #lpc12
I got there late, so here’s my abbreviated take on the whole thing. – As has already been said ad nauseum, the Liberal Party is alive and kicking. Walking onto…
Prime Minister Chicken Shit, or Chicken Hawk?
“I’ve watched and listened to what the leadership in the Iran regime says, and it frightens me,” Mr. Harper said in a CBC interview. Prime Minister Stephen Harper takes a…
Anti-choice group at it again
Campaign Life Coalition is at it again, handing out a slick flyer this past weekend, full of unattributed “facts,” demanding the government defund abortion because “it is an elective procedure…
Bob Rae for the Liberal Leadership
I’ve never understood why there was a supposed agreement that Rae wouldn’t run for the leadership. Doesn’t that seem a bit un-democratic? I have no idea if him running would…
Response from Via Rail on #viafail
I’d be happier about this if Via Rail didn’t call their passengers liars in the news stories about the Smiths Falls incident. I’m quite happy to swear an affidavit that…
Unspinning The Same-Sex Marriage Fiasco
On Thursday, an article in the Globe and Mail declared that Stephen Harper’s Conservatives had annulled over five thousand Canadian same-sex marriages issued to non-residents since 2005. Worldwide panic and…
A funny thing happened on the way to #LPC12
I decided to head to Ottawa for the last day of the LPC policy convention (I have no love of policy but my partner was there and I’d get to…
The skinny on the modeling world
I found this column online yesterday, which intrigued me. Back in the day – and I mean back, way back – more than two decades ago, I spent some time…
Huffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall has meltdown on Power & Politics. Goes viral. UPDATED
When I looked yesterday afternoon at the now famous Kathryn Marshall Ethical Oil freakout on youtube, the hits were just 6,000. It’s now well over 26,000 and quickly rising. Word…
Stop Caring Already!
The problem with Canada is that too many people care. If all of the losers just stopped trying to win elections, we’d save so much money every four years. There’s…