January 2012
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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
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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)
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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,...
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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
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Feeling lost without Wikipedia today? McSweeney's... →
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Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn’t have the slightest idea...
– The Books of Bokonon
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fuckyeahstvincent:
St. Vincent performing “Cheerleader” on Conan tonight!
Take that, Elvis Costello? Weird. Wonderfully so.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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
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A Northwestern University professor apologized for... →
equivoque:
And other things that happened in 2011.