âpihtawikosisân A great deconstruction of the racist shit spewing all over the blogosphere and the House of Commons regarding Attawatapiskat. With numbers! For a link to Attawatapiskat’s budget, go here…
What’s that old political saying? When you’re in a hole, quit digging. Bachmann just can’t seem to give herself a break. One of her latest: Gay people “can marry a…
I posted a new article over at YouSustain: Meat and Sustainability: The Facts. It has some interesting comparisons of how resource-intensive it is to produce various types of food. Let…
It’s stupid to think that a carbon tax would have any benefit for our economy or change habits.
I loved this week’s Hill Times Spin Doctors question. The Greens have been outspoken on how Harper has undermined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty through a nuclear trade deal with India.…
A friend of a friend of a friend of a friend told me that the entire Federal Conservative caucus was going to step down before the next election in order…
If you wonder why it’s better to be smart, these smart people spell it out for you in an easy to watch hour and a half of jokes and scientific…
Our civilization is coming to an end, sooner than later. It won’t end with a war, or a disease, or a flood, but rather with an abandonment of reason and…
I will never understand these people.
From the civil suit Jason Wall filed against Toronto Police Services Huffington Post link: The final final report said that an unnamed officer with the Toronto Police Service wrote: “…we…
Nominations are out for Canadian Blog Awards. Yours truly has been nominated for Best New Blog, Best Feminism Blog and Best Political Blog. Check it out here. Vote now, vote…
Or, alternatively titled, 2012 Toronto budget. Closing homeless shelters, cutting student nutrition programs (affecting more than 14,000 of Toronto’s poorest kids) and cutting several HIV/AIDS programs. These are just a…
Eliminating deductions represent an obvious way to improve public finances without punishing those small companies with new tax increases. This article offers up a few simple ideas related to this…
If you’re gay and ever wondered why you’re not straight, perhaps you’ve just been drinking too much Peruvian tap water. José Benítez—the mayor of Huarmey, a small town located in…
This article from Michael Roberts offers up a reasonable background discussion on why default is an option when it comes to the European banking situation: An alternative programme for Europe…
by matttbastard Noted w/o comment: Time Magazine covers – December 5, 2011 h/t
by matttbastard It’s total bullshit (not to mention batshit). AlterNet’s Josh Holland for teh Fisk: Wolf …offers a classic example of trying to shoe-horn reality into a theory with no…
There’s nothing better than knowing another language. You can talk to someone else in a way that is exclusive, and special, and express yourself more clearly. I’ve dabbled in learning…
I’ve never had a tweet of mine be ReTweeted so much. It was an excerpt from a Facebook post that got liked and shared by about 15 people by this…
