The West – or rather, the North West corner of this small planet – is by tradition and by psychology, puritanical in bent, still, even though this tradition is recent,…
Yesterday the McGuinty government unveiled a new online registry for organ donation. The response was so massive that it crashed the site! I just registered – it only took about…
- Your lawn can’t legally look like this? People are understandably mystified by some of the things I do, they have different outlooks on life. When they see a TV…
Give a guy free housing and he becomes the Tories’ new BFF. Careful Jack, your naked ambition is showing.
In a follow up to my recent post Don’t worry, cell phones still cause cancer, I saw this today: Fears about the safety of mobile phones are overdone. His reasoning…
Today (June 15th) the Toronto Star broke news that the NDP was planning to drop the term “socialism” from its party’s platform. This was a mere formality of what had…
I guess my venting, raging post the other day offended and/or ticked some people off, or at least the use of the strong language did. No sooner had I posted…
More and more hate crimes are being reported across the country, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In 2009, the number of hate crime reported in Canada went up…
Every year, millions of people around the world run, jog, swim, roller blade, pogo hop and do all matter of other efforts to draw attention to the need to fund…
Around the time I started wearing combat boots, putting safety pins through my ears as improvised earrings and became perpetually sullen, I first heard Joy Division’s Closer. It was amazing.…
Yes, indeedy, Stevie Spiteful!! You’ve been a very naughty boy!! And there is somebody, Terri-Jean Bedford, a dominatrix, who announced on a CBC interview, they would like to discipline you…
Broadway has never looked straighter. Featuring Stephen Colbert, Brooke Shields, and not Al Pacino.
Ok, fair warning, not only is this not safe for work, don’t play it when your kids are around either. Or mom. Anyone, really, don’t play it in front of…
Assange points out that there were illegal attacks on WikiLeak’s technical infrastructure, especially since it’s a legal, media organization and not an illegal group as some extreme critics suggest. ==…
We need the Senate, but not as it is now. The current Senate is far too inefective, inefficient, and undemocratic. I don’t agree with Stephen Harper much, but I do…
Well, that didn’t take very long, did it? Just weeks after Canada’s federal election, delegates at the Conservative Party Convention have raised a dead social issue over the weekend, discussing…
Funding to the IMF should be cut off.
Spirit has taken a dirt nap on Mars, years after it was expected to fail. If only Microsoft, Apple, or Garmin could build devices half as reliable as a Martian…
I post these thoughts as I wait in an airport watching everyone gear up for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup. I’m not a hockey fan. I think I’m one…
(Ya, I’m subtle – I have to call it as I see it) Obama and the Democrats are being framed and blamed for every evil in America, and the country’s…
