January 2012
Jan 31st
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“With a significant cross-section of the world’s financial elite in the audience,...”
–  Harper outlines class war agenda at Davos forum
Jan 31st
Jan 30th
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“This election system was invented before the light bulb, for goodness’ sake. I...”
– Nathan Cullen, NDP leadership candidate, on the first-past-the-post election system, and electoral reform in Canada (via eksmalltalk)
Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Another chapter in the on-going donnybrook between “Ethical Oil” (The Conservative government, friends of the Conservative government who stand to benefit from building pipelines to export bitumen to China and the US, Multinational Oil companies and the like) and so-called “Radicals” (Environmental groups, indigenous people living on the northwest coast, opposition MPs,...
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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A charming list of obviously coordinated pages attempting to make a social media statement about how excited Northern BC is for ‘economic development.’  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fort-St-James-Supports-Northern-Gateway-Pipeline/305159529500584 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-George-Supports-Northern-Gateway-Pipeline/290844254276716 ...
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Feeling lost without Wikipedia today? McSweeney's... →
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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“Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn’t have the slightest idea...”
–  The Books of Bokonon
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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fuckyeahstvincent: St. Vincent performing “Cheerleader” on Conan tonight!  Take that, Elvis Costello? Weird. Wonderfully so.
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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“This Monk had first gone wrong when it was simply given too much to believe in...”
–  Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Liberals getting downright progressive with it. A taste of being a fringe third party seems to have the Grits on the verge of making some charming new policy. Ending prohibition, figuring out a new balloting system, opening their doors to so-called ‘supporters’ (well-wishers?)… still stuck on the monarchy thing though.
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 13th
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Listenheartbreakyellow: Get on your feet.
Jan 13th
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sam: buongiorno: filmprojections: The first official trailer for Wes Anderson’s latest film, Moonrise Kingdom, starring Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Frances McDormand, and more. The film will be released on May 25, 2012. I am already worked up over the thought of what people are going to say about this, how they may cast it down or write it off, but I don’t...
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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“When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is frankly when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to govern.” - Stephen Harper, Canadian Press, April 18, 2005 Interesting. Very Interesting.
Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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“There are times when I suspect the mind has a mind of its own. It shows us...”
– David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 5th
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A Northwestern University professor apologized for... →
equivoque: And other things that happened in 2011.
Jan 2nd
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