The vetting processes of the Ontario Tories apparently leave something to be desired: Conservative candidate Jerry Bance was caught on CBC-TV’s Marketplace in 2012 urinating in a homeowner’s coffee mug and dumping the contents into the sink. Bance, the Conservative candidate for the battleground Toronto riding of Scarborough Rouge Park, has been a service technician […]
Month: September 2015
CSPAN is very forward-thinking in their marketing. You know who probably hasn’t purchased any copies of Out of Sight? Wingnuts. That may change! It's a 3-day @BooKTV holiday weekend –
This Francisco Goldman article in The New Yorker is a good run-down of what is going on in Guatemala. Citizens finally came together to stand up to the kleptocracy that has run the country since the e
I have said before that we are in a renaissance of excellent historical writing for a general public that wants to read something more than hagiographic narratives. Add Adam Rothman’s Beyond Freedom’s Reach to the list. Rothman tells the story of Rose Herera, a New Orleans slave whose children were spirited away to Cuba by […]
“My secondary for this game consisted of a wide receiver and some guys I just met at Chilli’s.” Well, after all, Mark Sanchez Just. Wins. The. Games. In. The. National. Football. Lea
As we watch young men of great promise tear their ACLs in the first quarter of the first game of the season… I’m not at APSA, but I’m gonna guess that this won’t work out so well. Groovy pics of Flankers sparring with Typhoons. The latest twist in the Mistral saga. Superman was a raving, […]
Yesterday, the New York Metropolitans faced the Miami Taxpayer Robbers, and the contest went into extra innings. In the 11th inning with a runner on and two outs, Mets manager Terry Collins —
Damon Wayans.
Wal-Mart is claiming that its decision to pay higher wages (a response to the persistent criticism of the corporation for keeping its workers in such poverty that there are food donation carts asking employees to feed their coworkers in need) is costing its stockholders 24 cents a share this quarter. I find this unlikely, but […]
The United States has taken an embarrassingly small number of Syrian refugees. That is especially true given U.S. complicity in the rise of ISIS and right-wing pressure to arm the Syrian rebels withou
This critique of analyses of “legacy” as a pretext for selective moralizing — source of the above graphic — is outstanding. Ted Cruz comes out for the sacred right of public of