Well, I’m just winding things down here and will be relocating to Vancouver in the next couple of days, but may not be back online for a bit, just so you don’t think I’ve dropped off the planet if there’s no posting for a while.
Entries from April 2009
April 30, 2009
Worst Persons in the World
From last night’s Countdown. This is an especially good one.
Update: Rachel Maddow discusses the recently passed Hate Crimes legislation with Matthew Shepard’s Mother.
April 30, 2009
Specter Vision
It’s a somewhat good thing one supposes that Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter switched parties the other day to avoid certain defeat in the next primary battle at the hands of the far right-wing Club for Growth, but it’s also more than a little funny to reflect on his words delivered in response to the defection [...]
April 29, 2009
Weight a Minute…
It’s great that the Liberal Party is finally getting with the program when it comes to OMOV but allow me to challenge this notion that votes should be “weighted” so that urban ridings with more members don’t get more influence than rural ridings. Can someone please explain this concept to me, because I’m not entirely [...]
April 29, 2009
Michael Ignatieff Asks…
What steps are being taken to protect Canadians against swine flu outbreak?
The Liberal leader is apparently so concerned that “foreign governments are fully aware of the measures our government is taking to protect Canadians” that he posts a self-serving video (in two languages!) asking a quite perfectly legitimate question, but then doesn’t bother to provide [...]
April 29, 2009
Shoot to Thrill
If wishes were horses, etc. Bit of an imaginative stretch to suggest that anyone was actually “calling for murder” isn’t it?
April 29, 2009
What a Hoot
Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann, the gift that keeps on giving…
By the way, it should go without saying, but Bachmann is completely full of shit. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was passed by a Republican controlled Congress and signed into law on June 17, 1930 by Republican President Hoover, not FDR as Bachmann [...]
April 28, 2009
Lawton Smalls Unbound
Serendipity strikes again… but you’ll have to go here and then follow the link from there to this catastrophically horrific place, in order to truly appreciate what I mean. The wonders of the Intertubes, my friends.
Now the notion of so-called “conservatives” yearning to fully unleash their deep reservoir of inner batshit [...]
