Imperfect boys with their perfect ploys...

This is why I hate the media AND the Black Block. Over 100,000 people in a peaceful protest against the global attack on public services, and the coverage is about twenty people with paint bombs.

London protesters attack police, stores - World - CBC News

Police in London say protesters threw paint bombs and light bulbs filled with ammonia at officers during a demonstration against U.K. budget cuts.

Who's signed up as a registered lobbyist in Alberta this week? Why, yes, it's the Koch brothers, fresh from funding Scott Walker in Wisconsin.

U.S. energy giant lobbying province

When the city bureaucracy says things that aren't true - Greater Ottawa

Faced with a mildly embarrassing situation, a city spokesperson said things that weren't true, a deputy city manager told her bosses on council things that weren't true, and the acting general manager of OC Transpo said more things that weren't true. And they did this knowing that the truth was goin...

Do I think that Earth Hour is almost a classic example of corporate greenwashing, and an attempt to replace real action with feel-good tokenism. Why, yes I do. But there was nothing more beautiful than the city going dark during the last blackout, and the sense of community of people going outside for a short period. So I'm still rather hugely in favour. And if it actually has real meaningful participation, I really want to see the satellite photos.

Earth Hour 2011 Official video

This Earth Hour 2011: 8.30pm, Saturday 26 March, celebrate your action for the planet with the people of world, and add more to your Earth Hour. From its inception as a single-city initiative -- Sydney, Australia - in 2007, Earth Hour has grown into a global symbol of hope and movement for chang...

This is the awesomest Big Idea piece I've read in a while.

The Big Idea: Lyda Morehouse « Whatever


Nature is a strange and fascinating thing, and for the theologically and/or teleologically minded, it raises some interesting questions. It certainly did for Lyda Morehouse, who in writing up her latest novel Resurrection Code looked at some curious aspects of the animal world and wondered what God...

This is worth reading. It also has me thinking I'd love to see good work done on conversation analysis of how men avoid undesired sex, in the very different masculine power dynamic where - because men are coded as aggressors - it's in some ways even more challenging for men to admit that they aren't interested without making it clearly the fault of the other person.

Mythcommunication: It’s Not That They Don’t Understand, They Just Don’t Like The Answer «

I just read a paper from the discipline of conversation analysis. It dovetails nicely with what I wrote in Talking Past Each Other, and I’m going to go through some of the findings (I can’t redistribute the paper itself), and talk about some conclusions. Long story short: in conversation, “no” is...

Nice little tool from the CCPA that really drives home visually the tradeoffs and alternate choices that are in a budget.

So You Think You Can Budget

So you think you can budget? Unemployment too high...Feds not helping Canadians... How would Canada fare under your plan?