Aside:Polls
Sunday, October 5th, 2008OK, that’s some of the only good news I’ve read lately.
Archive for 2008
Important Local News
Saturday, October 4th, 2008One of the gadgets on my custom Google homepage is the “Top Nova Scotia News” feed. It displays the three “top” stories for Nova Scotia at any given time.
Usually my eyes scan over the headlines without paying much attention, but lately there have been a rash of headlines that serve to highlight just exactly where [...]
Little Brother On YouTube
Saturday, October 4th, 2008When I was playing with YouTube last night, in order to pull out the music for that wildly dissimilar mix, it occurred to me that essentially everything is on YouTube–a revelation that’s been brewing at least since I found Closet Land on there.
So I decided to see if there was anything there featuring my brother. [...]
Friday Tunes
Friday, October 3rd, 2008I’m in the mood to put up a mix, but it seems like going to the trouble of hosting MP3s and creating xspf files, etc, is just too much work.
So, let’s use YouTube instead. It’s easier, and it offloads the bandwidth and copyright violation to someone else.
Let’s start with a dedication to Sarah Palin and [...]
Double Debate Night
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008So I chose to watch the Canadian federal debate live, and to record the Biden/Palin show for later.
The Canadian debates were interesting, but didn’t really do anything to change my basic opinions. Actually, that’s not true–my respect for Duceppe went up another notch, but it doesn’t matter as long as he’s the head of a [...]
Aside: Osama is winning
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008You know, watching all this news about the U.S. financial crisis, I’m forced to wonder if Osama isn’t winning after all.
What A Busy Weekend
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008So, just to review:
Dark Knight on Friday night. It was well past time for me to have seen it, I know, but having children changes the number of opportunities you have to go to the movies, as well as really altering the economics of the “night at the movies”. And actually the primary reason we [...]
Closet Land
Monday, September 29th, 2008While thinking about the use of torture by governments today, I found myself wishing I could just make everyone watch Closet Land1. Of course, I’ve lamented before about the fact that there is no DVD edition–at least no english one, although I did get my hands on a spanish one that at least lets me [...]
Raging Out: DVD designed to create xenophobia works
Monday, September 29th, 2008So, the Clarion fund, which exists to “educate the public about the threat of Islamic terrorism” has massively distributing their DVD, which sure seems designed to make Americans afraid of brown people.
Interesting, the fund seems to have done this massive distribution in the swing states only. I wonder what objective they could hope to achieve [...]
Raging Out: No One Cares About Torture
Monday, September 29th, 2008It is now a matter of record that Bush, Cheney, Rice, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Tenet, and Powell were all directly involved in authorizing the use of torture.
The group called itself the National Security Principals Committee. It held dozens of top-secret decisions in the White House. This according to an ABC News investigation, sourced with unnamed, high-ranking [...]
Sunday Night Gallimaufry
Sunday, September 28th, 2008You know the drill, this is the miscellaneous tab closing ceremony. Since I’m tired of politics today, there will be none in this list.
I have had several discussions about this recent article on a particular form of elective surgery. All that I can conclude from these discussions is that I have different aesthetic than many [...]
Aside: Presidential Debate 1
Friday, September 26th, 2008So, I didn’t get the complete and utter McCain meltdown or doddering that I was hoping for, but if the numbers at MediaCurves are right Obama grabbed the biggest slice of the undecideds on every issue. That makes me feel better.
I like Art
Thursday, September 25th, 2008I also the The Arts. Of course I’m an elitist liberal scum, but this just gives me one more reason to despise Stephen Harper. I could rant, but let’s let George at BookNinja do it instead, since he’s so good at it:
First, he tried to set up arts and culture producers, from dance companies to [...]
A Disorganized Office Is A Sign Of…
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Did you see any of the new stories about John Jost and teams’s forthcoming research paper? The one about how “behavioural residue” can be used to predict political leanings?
“Conservative rooms tended to be cleaner, more brightly lit, better organized, less cluttered, and also more conventional and ordinary in terms of decoration,” Jost said during a [...]
Really Not A Suprise
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008You are a Social Liberal (76% permissive) [...]
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