Tag Archives: politics

what i’ve been up to lately.

hello.  here are some things i’ve been up to lately.
- reaching for zen. i question whether buddha really is the one for me.  but transcendence is a relative beast in the end, so that’s okay.
- wondering if i really do believe in contemporary popular culture. i realized this morning that i watch perhaps only one [...]

Gmapping Nova Scotia

It’s the beginning of Reading Week, and I’ve decided to have a little fun with Google Maps. Below is the beginning of a Nova Scotia electoral map. I’m building it by spiralling out from Halifax in a clock-wise direction. When it’s all said and done, I should land in Glace Bay, of [...]

Doing my part.

Stephen Harper, 9 September 2004: We respectfully point out that the opposition parties . . . constitute a majority in the House

p.o.

i’m so pissed off at the state of our national affairs right now i can hardly speak.
oh wait, my representative has lost her right to speak on my behalf because the House has been SHUT DOWN. I suppose all I need to do now is find some one else who can’t speak because of [...]

19. Shift out of Luck

Oh boy…  the Liberals’ Green Tax Shift…. For once, I chuckled at a line attributed to the Tory backbench jerk, Jason Kenney, in response to this recently released plan (read: news item).
Kenney, who some call the Conservative’s Attack Dog, but is more like PM Harper’s lap dog, is known to chew out anything that anyone [...]

Mike Huckabee’s pending theocracy

Making the internet rounds this week is the January 14, 2008, video clip of GOP Candidate Mike Huckabee stating in Michigan that the American constitution ought to be amended to be more in line with Christian family values.
The clip is embedded below, in the midst of early-in-the-morning jolly-good-times by three idiot American anchors (Forgive them; [...]

Dearest Lucy,

Dearest Lucy,
This election has my stomache in tatters. For the first time, and all over again, the Canadian people are going to split the vote, and we’ll find ourselves with a parliament and government not truly representative of the citizenry.
I need your help.
We must start a campaign to Stop The Madness. The only way to [...]

let it spew.

This is where I speak.
Denizens of Nova Scotia are (re-)electing MLAs today. If an MP or MPP is a Parliamentarian, is an MLA an Assemblor? It is piss-pouring rain outside, which killed my Noble Act of Citizenry. I had planned to vote, and then move towards a local restuarant for a wicked breakfast where I [...]