Hope As A Gas
What if we could frack for natural gas without polluting the drinking water tables? I don’t think it’s as easy as this article suggests. Your only concern cannot be the…
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John Snobelen: PCPO Whisperer
You may not have heard but there’s a race for a new Ontario PC Party president. Here’s John Snobelen and his campaign manager, Josie. I especially like how he goes…
Conservative MP celebrates killing gun registry
How about you do that in front of their loved ones? Suzanne Laplante-Edward is the mother of one of murdered women, which took place 22 years ago today. She calls…
Portrait of the president as a young Marxist guerrilla
A young Dilma Rousseff, being interrogated by the Brazilian military junta in the 1970s. She looks pretty fearless and pugnacious, no? Here’s the story behind the picture, courtesy of Cubadebate:…
Coming recession? Shane Jones at UofR
He was able to take a plane to Spain from Britain for two pounds. I’m sure there will be info that will go over my head at this talk. How…
Lies Don’t Matter
There may be no way to get fired from a cabinet job in the Harper Government. Well, unless Peter MacKay takes off his shoes and throws them at a helicopter…
Standarize Electronics
Electronics work best when there are standards to follow. Without standards we wouldn’t have CDs that could be read in any nearly CD-ROM or DVD drive. We wouldn’t have radios…
The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog
The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog is an online database for scientists, educators, and the general public focused on habitable exoplanets discoveries. The catalog uses various habitability indices and classifications to identify,…
Remembering Dad
He’s been gone 40 years now. Had he lived, he would’ve turned 70 this year. As it is, I’ve been on this Earth a dozen years longer than he had.…
Canadian Banks Made Millions from Illegal Secret Fed Loan
The other day I saw a video of Dennis Kucinich, an American Congressman, reviewing a scandal which I thought was years old. It was actually breaking news with important new…
Russia Proposes Ban On “Gay Propaganda”
The city of Saint Petersburg in Russia has introduced a bill that would impose a $100 fine for anyone found promoting “homosexual propaganda.” The fine is increased up to $1,600…
Bullied
With a rash of recent suicides in Ontario this fall, and elsewhere, bullying has received a lot of media coverage lately. Finally. Even governments have taken action. But this isn’t…
Occupy Christmas
OCCUPY CHRISTMAS! (Santa photo originally from from Tumbleweed:-) and released under Creative Commons license) Santa’s been abusing the 99% elves at his North Pole cold-shop. Lt. Pike comes to the…
Deconstructing dog-whistles feeding off Attawatapiskat
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…
Michele Bachmann’s biggest threat is Michele Bachmann
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…
Meat and sustainability
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…
You Can’t Nationalize Carbon Costs
It’s stupid to think that a carbon tax would have any benefit for our economy or change habits.
Harper undermines Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
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.…
I heard a rumour
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…