And you have the citizens of the United States of America, wallowing around trying to make sense of a situation they brought upon themselves...

Not that Greg Mankiw's position should surprise you. He was, after all, one of the advisors to the architects of the Bush "tax cu...

Dear wealthy denizens of Western society, Stop bitching on your smart phone about how the valet scratched your Lincoln Navigator while par...

giving peace a chance. Happy Birthday, John . . . .

SLATE has a report by Sasha Abramsky, "Toxic Persons" , which is about the effect of America's prison mania on its society. T...

Seriously,  because if we don't have right to have a non-police witness of some kind present at our interrogation by the police , then i...

I'm not sure I'm the guy to take this on and as usual these days I'm busy juggling flaming chainsaws on the  job search and fami...

  A mat used by people having sex in a field adjacent to the lay-by on the A31 next to the village of Puttenham. THE NYTIMES has a charming...

Gizmodo has a video of some genetic winner working at removing himself from the gene pool. Amazing. Really. Then again, it could be suicide...

YouTube   Glad I wasn't there.

Really , Tony? Is that the test of government policy ? Oh, you  slimy bastard, I have you. I so own you and your Harperists. I can giv...

Interesting! Try burning it off.

This vs this . It appears the current government's spending priorities need a fiscal adjustment . . . .

THE TIMES LIVE newspaper, in South Africa, has a report on the demise of Porsche tuner Uwe Gemballa . For thirty years, Uwe had been doing ...

You may remember a post from way back in April detailing how a Vancouver Island artist had her work removed from Facebook because the Lords...

WHATEVER is an acerbic blog by S-F writer (he's a creative consultant for Stargate: Universe ) John Scalzi. He has a delightful piece, ...

Dawg , Pogge and Balbulican have covered this nicely. Suffice to let me add that Stephen Harper, Peter MacKay and Charles McVety are a  ...

Have I told you how much you are not a national newspaper and nothing but another Toronto tabloid? No? Must have been busy that day. You...

Normally I would simply ignore and move on, but today I received nine emails about the "change" in comments policy. How odd. ...

Michael Moore gives the definitive review of Bob Woodward's new obama administration novel. Excerpts: In fact, after you read Woodward...