Hound party manifesto, part 2: Why Gus would make a better Prime Minister than Stephen Harper

Item:
1 While he doesn’t LIKE them, Gus does not actually eat cats.* Unlike Stephen Harper.
2 Gus is lazy enough to avoid antagonizing foreign leaders, but tough enough to growl at them if they approach his food.
3 He will encourage agriculture, especially animal husbandry.
4 He is a symbol the country could unite around – who [...]

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Book review: The Unlikely Disciple

I can’t remember *where* exactly I read about Kevin Roose’s book, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University. I can’t remember when exactly I reserved at the library.  But I must have done so – I’m guessing sometime in July, at the peak of my Quiverfull obsession – because a week [...]

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An extremely civilized Facebook flame war

One of my Facebook friends (Ali Berkok, of the excellent jazz group Arkana Music and others) posted a link today to Nina Paley’s essay, Artists are not inherently entitled to monetary compensation for their art. The ensuing flame war was both educational and relatively civilized.
Paley’s point appears to be that, like no one feels like [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 33: Solving the problem of survival.

A thought experiment.
Link.

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Alchemy: Still not dead yet.

Today at the art gallery I watched Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, a documentary about the financial, social, and moral disaster that was Enron, the oil/internet/utility company that crashed and burned so spectacularly in 2001. Yeah, OK, the movie came out in 2005 or something, but I didn’t see it until today [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 28: Fiddling while Rome burns.

Is America becoming fascist?  If so, should I be doing something about it?
Smarter people with better research skills have written about this:
at Orcinus
at Crooks and Liars
on Alternet
and many other places
Link to the episode

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Hound Party Manifesto

Yesterday evening I was walking the dogs and we past a local bar that seemed to be holding some kind of function.  It turned out to be a Green Party fundraiser/meeting.
Gus, while he doesn’t like the kind of parties that involve strangers coming to your house and making you stay up late, was taken by [...]

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It’s here!

The Torture Memos is more or less done – may require a few tweaks, but that’s it.
Listen to it here.
Or listen to it live tonight!

I hear John Yoo has lawyered up…

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My patriarchy researches

As you may already know, I recently read and had my mind blown by Kathryn Joyce’s Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement.  Now, my general media consumption pattern is as follows:
- I run across something by accident, usually something nerdy
- I dabble in it for a little while
- I become increasingly obsessed with but slightly [...]

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Moonshine

This week has been excellent podcast-fodder:
Garbage strike.
Heat wave.
No money.
No work.
And now….
LCBO STRIKE!

The strike has been averted FOR NOW at least.  (For those who don’t know, the LCBO is the government monopoly liquor store.)  I bought a couple of bottles of wine and a bottle of vodka yesterday, but if they do strike…moonshine may be the [...]

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