the woodshed

A couple of tunes for what appears to have become the second largest national holiday in the U.S. and rapidly in Canada, too. Why celebrate ...

Thank you Toronto Star , for making the headline suit the story Tweet

Note that most of these people were arrested in pre-dawn raids BEFORE the G20 demonstrations began, thanks to the use of infiltrators and po...

 Shamelessly stolen from Montreal Simon, whose excellent blog should be regular reading Tweet

Former Poet Laureate of the United States and UC Berkley professor Robert Hass didn't want to believe that the police were needlessly be...

As I write this, the number one story under Canada on Google news is the report by the privacy commissioner about the government collecting ...

(and this explains the label ) Tweet

While I dislike the thought of politicizing Remembrance Day any more than it already has become politicized, neither can I stomach the idea...

This week at Berkely. How much more will the wealthy's bought and paid for politicians rob from the poor to give to the rich? How muc...

  The Koch brothers (not exactly as pictured above) would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, or at least the world's b...

As a journalist I understand the need to use value neutral terminology in describing events much of the time, but sometimes my colleagues an...

Here are the "high"lights of soon-to-be-former-presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry's recent speech in New Hampshire. ...

And that reason is this: People who comment at newspaper websites are stupid, as are many people who complain to newspapers, as are many peo...

 go easy on the treats, folks! Tweet

"You won't recognize Canada when I get through with it" -Stephen Harper Not content with running roughshod over the wishes ...

Cartoon shamelessly stolen from Alison at Creekside , who got it from LeDevoir. It appears the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to...

There is a rare seasonly-themed event this week that I would love to attend, You don't often see seasonally themed events for political ...

I'm shocked, just shocked that Christie Blatchford said something stupid, mean-spirited and offensive about not-police people who work h...

Dear Nobel prize panel, Never mind handing out prizes for curing cancer or ending war, a solution has been found for the greatest modern pl...

92 years old and he is still fighting for the 99%. His machine "surrounds hate and forces it to surrender." FSM bless Pete Seeger ...