Life and death in Florida and Texas

While the Senate convulses and contorts to keep a patient biologically (if not meaningfully) alive in Florida, a very similar case reached its quiet, heartbreaking conclusion in Texas a few days ago. Republican talking points suggest that, with GOP senators taking on...

Learning from the bad guys

I love The Left Coaster. It’s thought-provoking as well as irreverent (a balance I suspect we rarely quite get right here at ODTAA, despite our staff of 200 researchers, 16 writers and 24-hour TiVO tech support) (ah, you knew I was making that up – you...

Norm Spector, I salute you

It takes a remarkable level of intellectual rigour to criticize someone who agrees with you for their dumb-ass reasons for doing so. Norm Spector, with whom I disagree on virtually everything (“Did you see his insane piece on what time of day it is?”), met...

Day one on the new job

For immediate release May 1, 2005 Cellucci demands horse racing industry develop first-strike military capability Also suggests new missile defence scheme: horses to gallop toward incoming warheads

Bully for Gordon!

If nothing else, this should get PlaymobilFisher Price banned in British Columbia. It’s a brutal little stop-motion animation that takes you through the past four years of B.C. politics (a.k.a. “the tinfoil era”) in six minutes. About as subtle as a...
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