(Still) Bushed!

New Name For Torture: “The Bush System”
John Yoo, a former member of the Justice Department who wrote the first rationalization that torture is legal, said in the Wall Street Journal that the United States must torture people and referred to it as the Bush system.

The Moon: A Vast Electric Generator?

Here’s kind of a far out idea that was in the last part of the CBC documentary Fly Me to the Moon.

David R. Criswell (Director of the Institute for Space Systems Operations at the University of Houston), proposes the construction of large-scale solar collectors on the moon’s surface, using local [...]

A Letter to Sir Richard Branson

The now infamous letter of complaint to the chairman of Virgin Airlines regarding the food (if it can be called that) on a recent flight from Mumbai to Heathrow. Not quite the image Virgin wants to present in connection with its 25 year anniversary.

Blago Impeached: 59-0

Well, the political freak show is finally over — at least for a while. The Illinois state senate voted unanimously this afternoon to impeach now former Governor Rod Blagojevich, with officials using words like “corrupt,” “hypocrite,” “devious,” “dishonest,” “corrupt,” and “a stain on the state.” Impeachment prosecutor David Ellis said, “He has a [...]

Ignatieff Fails His Own Litmus Test

Someone asked me this morning why the Liberals are supporting the government’s budget. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a good answer. When I heard yesterday that the Liberals would be proposing amendments to the budget I didn’t think that “putting the government on probation” (to use Ignatieff’s expression) would be sum total of demands that would [...]

Obama Signs Equal-Pay Bill

President Barack Obama signed an equal pay bill into law today, declaring that it’s a family issue, not just a women’s issue.

Meanwhile, here in Canada: “The Conservative government (like its Liberal and Conservative predecessors) apparently doesn’t believe in either pay equity or the need to enforce its own regulations.”

Wishful Thinking

The budget says the Tories will “identify government holdings that could be developed by the private sector to stimulate local economic development…In some cases, it may be concluded that selling an asset to a private-sector entity may generate more economic activity and deliver greater value to taxpayers.”

But apparently, Flaherty is already [...]

“Two Steps Back With No Shoes On”

Why do Conservatives hate science?

Traditional Values

Former Republican congressman Vagina Coastguard Dick Armey to Joan Walsh the editor-in-chief of Salon.com on last night’s Hardball with Chris Matthews: “I am so damned glad that you can never be my wife, ‘cause I surely wouldn’t have to listen to that prattle from you every day.”

Astounding.
Update: Chet at [...]

The Burning Irony

After years of excoriating the Liberals for being obsessed with power, we now learn that “principles” be damned, for the Conservatives… It’s all about just desperately holding onto POWER at any cost. Golly, what a surprise!
Now, our own side wants us to put it all on the line on behalf of so-called “principles” [...]