the woodshed

  "Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. " -John...

Shopping season being upon us, we here at the Woodshed are making our list and checking it twice. Kids are often difficult to buy for, as to...

Before you go opening your piehole about how "those Indians get a free ride" and are just "spending all our tax money on booz...

...Unless they happen to be Iranian or North Korean or Syrian or Mexican or Jordanian or Nicaraguan or Cuban or Russian or French or Chinese...

I'm sure the message many of the one percent will draw from this is that handguns are too inexpensive. Tweet

Shamelessly stolen from PZ over at Pharyngula , music by Jonathan Colton , whose work you really , really need to become more familiar wi...

It is kind of Thunderbirds meets the Prisoner via Monty Python, the Batman TV series and a really low budget Japanese sci-fi series. This i...

My suggestion if you find one of these on your vehicle would be to either drive to a truckstop and stick it on a tractor-trailer with out-of...

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. ...