Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling.
“So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush…
I will not pretend that this country is the only obstacle to an agreement at Copenhagen. But it is the major one. It feels odd to be writing this. The immediate threat to the global effort to sustain a peaceful and stable world comes not from Saudi Arabia or Iran or China. It comes from Canada. How could that be true?”
Counter-Protest of the Day: A couple of Yale student tell off 25-year-old evangelist preacher Jesse Morrel in their own special way.
It God didn’t want guys to spontaneously make out, then maybe he shouldn’t have made that so hot, okay? Something to think about.
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
Reframing the Montréal Massacre
Feminist media criticism!
This is a phenomenal video! I used it when I used to teach mass communications.
How The Vancouver Olympics Is Fucking Over Your Favourite Artists, And Why You Should Care
“The artist shall at all times refrain from making any negative or derogatory remarks respecting VANOC (the organizing committee), the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Olympic movement generally, Bell and/or other sponsors associated with VANOC.”
Words that will live in infamy…
Ugandan church leader brands anti-gay bill 'genocide'
“Canon Gideon Byamugisha said the bill, which recommends the death penalty for anyone repeatedly convicted of having gay sex and prison sentences for those who fail to report homosexual activity to the police, would breed violence and intolerance through all levels of society.”
Holy crap! How am I just hearing about this for the first time? For those of you who think that “everything is okay now” for gay men and lesbians living in the world today…
“Harold T. Wilkins” - Fanfarlo
I miss Arcade Fire.
“Dream About Me” - The Depreciation Guild
