the woodshed

At last a lazy morning to peruse the news and what to my wondering eyes does appear but Stephen Harper's scofflaw government getting its...

A little dark early summer humor - but those damn birds are like feathered rats. The cover by the lovely and talented Ms. Lewis: The unbeata...

As a Canadian who has lived outside of Canada for a dozen years (and yes Mom, we are coming back eventually, honest) this kind of headline t...

Koko Taylor more than once said she hoped that when she died, it would be on stage, doing the thing she loved most: Singing the blues. She n...

"A man with 'political and religious motives' killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another Monday in a targe...

"We are shocked at this morning's disturbing news that Mr. Tiller was gunned down," anti-abortion group Operation Rescue said ...

An excellent article on the realities of poverty and why it is so hard for people to get back up once they fall down. The poorer you are, th...

Just the other day, we saw the story about how Liberty "University" had decided to pull the plug on a Student Democrats club on it...

You would think that the points made by this former counter-intelligence officer who served in Afghanistan would be self-evident . You would...

Okay, this has gone on long enough. All this bullshit about the Governor General eating some seal meat that is . It is no better or worse th...

Apologies for stealing the title from RossK over at the Gazetteer, who seems to have gone AWOL for the moment, but this should tide us all ...

I really couldn't possibly add anything to title like that, except the following Q and A.

The new Jack Chick tracts are out! "It's a Deal" and "Evil Eyes" are new classics but these older ones are better ...

The Divine Ms. Z wants to know why the OPP are not pursuing charges in the case of the Kopp Killer. What the hell was Jose Canseco thinking ...

I always thought that when people said "count the silverware" when the government changed hands, that it was just an expression of...

For Dick Cheney 9/11 means never having to say you're sorry . His speech last week at the American Enterprise Institute is a masterpiece...

Everyone's least favorite bowtie model and smarmy right-wing media douche bag Tucker Carlson has decided that, despite having utterly fa...

Join us once again for a serene Sunday soaring high above the clouds, be they metaphysical, meteorological or computer-generated in the skie...

The CBC has an excellent letter from an expat grad student in England about the Conservative Party of Canada's attacks on Michael Igna...

Universities are supposed to places of ideas, centers of higher education and free marketplaces of ideas. Students are there to have their m...