Monthly Archives: November 2011
Guided Tour of OCW
Independent filmmaker Lee Stranahan saves you the trouble of actually going to Zuccotti Park with a fascinating, hour-long tour of the “Occupy Wall Street” encampment. It’s not an altogether pretty picture by any means, but it seems to be a … Continue reading
Filed under Protests
In Over Their Heads
Bill Maher’s rebuttal to the right-wing talking point that President Obama is a failure because he’s “in over his head”… You can watch the entire show at this site.
Filed under 2012 U.S. Election, Humour, Religion, Republican Party
Game Over for Occupy Victoria
The pathetic effort to emulate the OCW protest movement south of the border is rapidly coming to an end in BC’s capital city and will soon be displaced by the imperatives of upcoming Christmas festivities and the installation of an … Continue reading
Filed under Protests
Brotherly Love
Speaking to a friendly audience at a Washington area rally organized by the Koch Brothers funded astroturf political organization “Americans for Prosperity,” Herman Cain gets his shuck n’ jive on to proudly declare he’s the billionaire oil magnates’ “brother from … Continue reading
Filed under 2012 U.S. Election, Republican Party
Elizabeth Warren v. Heckler
An angry man confronts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren at the outset of a local volunteer meeting in Brockton, Mass. “You’re a socialist whore!” the unemployed Fox News viewer shouted, adding for good measure that her “boss” (presumably President Obama) was … Continue reading
Filed under 2012 U.S. Election, Right-Wing Haters, Wingnuts
Promoting “Conservative Values”
Judge William Adams, caught on tape in 2004 after his daughter secretly filmed him repeatedly beating her on the backside with a belt, apparently for illegally downloading music and games from the Internet that she claims were “unavailable for legal … Continue reading
Filed under Republican Party
Poppycock!
It’s no big deal to drop a loonie in the Legion collection box and pin a poppy on your lapel as a good many people do around this time of the month, but I have to confess that over the … Continue reading
Filed under War
Nation Maker
Richard Gwyn talks about his new book Nation Maker, the second volume about the life and times of Sir. John A. Macdonald covering the period from Confederation until his death in 1891. Not that they likely give much thought to … Continue reading
Filed under History
Take Off, Eh?
As a Halloween treat, Ezra Levant attempts to be funny by masquerading as an obnoxious “Barge Delahunty” intruding on a Rob Ford look-alike (who knew?) in a series of increasingly awkward encounters. I have to admit that this parody had … Continue reading
American Idol
A nine-foot statue of former President Ronald Reagan was unveiled today at the Washington-area airport named after the former General Electric pitchman and star of such film classics as Bedtime for Bonzo. Just as with the other statues of the … Continue reading
Filed under Americana
