Monthly Archives: November 2011
Mine Your Own Business
Interesting documentary from 2007 that presents what its creators describe as the “dark side of the environmental movement”… The film contends that opposition from Greenpeace and other environmentalist NGOs to a gold mining project by a Canadian firm in Roșia … Continue reading
Filed under Environmental Policy
New Rules: 11/11/11
From the last show of the season. “If A Christmas Carol was performed by the Tea Party Dramatic Society, it would be a cautionary tale about how the hero, Scrooge – a blameless job creator – is turned into a … Continue reading
Filed under Humour, Republican Party
Fucking Spam!
Unlike some folks that are ridiculously obsessed with such things, I spend absolutely no time whatsoever monitoring or analyzing the site statistics for this little soapbox, let alone bothering to figure out ingeniously clever ways to SEO “optimize” them. Chalk … Continue reading
Filed under Internet/Social Media
Student Protests
Thousands of students marched through London yesterday to protest cuts to public education spending by the Conservative-led Coalition government and a significant increase in tuition fees. Here’s one of the organizers, Ben Beech, a 21-year-old architecture student, holding forth on … Continue reading
Oops!
In tonight’s latest installment of the GOP Dating Game, Rick Perry makes it clear that, if elected, he would immediately scrap three federal government departments: Education, Commerce, and… um, one he’s completely unable to identify by name. In fact, it’s … Continue reading
Filed under 2012 U.S. Election, Republican Party
OCW Vancouver/Victoria Update
The few remaining hardcore activists in Vancouver and Victoria continue to discredit whatever legitimate grievances initial supporters of the copycat OCW movement in Canada may have purported to represent at the outset of the protests several weeks ago. Last night, … Continue reading
Zygotes ≠ “Persons”
While it may be argued in the most technically extreme biological sense that “life begins at conception” as devoutly religious people maintain to be the case, it is a complete absurdity to contend that a fertilized egg (aka a zygote) … Continue reading
An Anal Cyst Says, What…?
Rush Limbaugh demonstrates, yet again, what an utterly loathsome, hypocritical, morally vacant douchebag he is. No wonder he has such a compelling appeal to countless millions of right-wing “dittoheads”… By the way, MSNBC did very well hiring former Republican campaign … Continue reading
Filed under 2012 U.S. Election, Republican Party, Right-Wing Haters, Wingnuts
Political Discourse in America
OCW protesters confront what they imagine to be a wealthy and insensitive “conservative” woman outside a swanky Washington hotel. I know “liberals” aren’t supposed to pay any attention to these sorts of awkward encounters documented on film, nor are they … Continue reading
Filed under Activism
Cain 2012: Performance Art Project?
We should have known at Pokemon! Rachel Maddow is now convinced that Herman Cain’s campaign is nothing more than an elaborate performance art project. As far as offbeat theories to rationalize the otherwise inexplicable go, this hypothesis may have some … Continue reading
Filed under 2012 U.S. Election, Humour, Republican Party
