The Sun family of newspapers have always been a joke. 60% advertisements, 15% “News”, 15% Sports, and 10% conservative apologetics (or histrionics, depending on the day). Throw in a daily dose of pathetic semi-nudity and you’ve got a newspaper aimed firmly at the lowest common denominator. It’s been a very long time since I willingly [...]
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Intolerable Idiocy: How The Edmonton Sun’s Love Of Propaganda Has Finally Caused Them To Declare War On You
Posted: February 16, 2012 in Culture, Media, PoliticsTags: Bill C-51, Edmonton Sun, Fascism, Propaganda, Tabloid, Tyranny
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A Copyright Quickie: Canada Is About To Pass Sopa’s Evil Little Brother. Politely.
Posted: January 26, 2012 in Culture, Media, PoliticsTags: Censorship, copyright, Media, Piracy, Revolution, SOPA, Users Rights
I’m a Canadian. We’re a quiet bunch; prone to enjoying hockey, drinking stronger beer than our friends south of the border, and lovers of fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy. We also, apparently, have an inferiority complex when it comes to being evil dirt bags, because we’ve decided to pass our very own version [...]
The Ethics Of Vigilantism: How Anonymous Is Like Batman, Israel (it’s thin but it’s there) And The American Revolution
Posted: January 22, 2012 in Culture, Politics, TechnologyTags: Anonymous, Batman, Censorship, Israel, Occupy, Revolution, revolutionary, SOPA, vigilante, vigilantism
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere. Thomas Jefferson [...]
Mega Upload Is Dead: A Quick Reminder That You Don’t Run Your Government Anymore
Posted: January 19, 2012 in Culture, Politics, Random Thoughts, TechnologyTags: America, Bankers, crime, Financial Crisis, Hana Amal, Hulu, Mega Upload, Ninjavideo, Occupy Wall St, PIPA, Sony, SOPA, Time Warner, Universal
First, read this. Then, if you have time, read the very long: http://dearthey.com/2010/07/29/government-assasinates-ninjas-to-catch-pirates-its-not-stealing-if-it-isnt-real/ which was my eulogy of sorts for Ninjavideo last year. I’ve been meaning to come back to this for a while. The very real consequence of internet piracy, as we’ve learned from Ninjavideo, and now Mega Upload, is that they’re not just going to [...]
Why? (And Don’t You Dare Say Freedom): An Open Letter To Anonymous And The 99%
Posted: October 8, 2011 in Culture, Politics, Random ThoughtsTags: Anonymous, Fawkesian Mask, Guy Fawkes, Occupy Wall Street, Protest, Revolution, The 99%
We don’t live in Camelot; that is abundantly clear. The sky is falling upon us as the fruits of forty years of financial idiocy ripen and an entire generation of would be oligarchs and imperialists burn the evidence of their culpability. People have begun to riot (as they tend to do right before starving) and governments [...]
I’ll Be A Good Cyborg As Soon As I’ve Finished Vlogging: How Digital Power Has Become The New Opiate
Posted: April 7, 2011 in Culture, Politics, TechnologyI haven’t been here for a while. I mean, I’ve been here, sitting in front of my computer, doing…stuff (yes, fine, there’s been some porn involved) but I haven’t been blogging. And it’s not because I haven’t had anything to say; I’ve drowned Twitter with my inanity and the things I’ve learned just at my [...]
Stop Democracy Before It’s Too Late: A NEW New Deal
Posted: August 8, 2010 in Culture, PoliticsTags: conservative, governmental overthrow, gun control, lesbian porn, liberal, lottery, Prop 8, voting, zeitgeist
Unless you live in a bubble, you can’t help but be aware of what happened this week. That’s right, for the first time ever and in defiance of all the odds, an article written by me had over four hundred hits and Oh, right. Deep breath. (Not everything’s about me. Not everything’s about me. Not everything’s [...]
Keep Killing My Kids With Kindness And I’ll Kill You: Coming Soon To A School DIstrict Near You
Posted: July 18, 2010 in PoliticsTags: Alberta, Fail, Kids, Learning, School, Success, Testing
I’ve written before about my concerns for the next generation; how we’re failing them, and how we’re giving them excuses to fail us. This, however, has come to a head recently with my discovery of two pieces of information: 1) I live in a province that… Wait, let me back up a minute and explain [...]
Bah, Hummer! Lessons We Should Have Learned From 19th Century Fiction
Posted: November 8, 2009 in PoliticsTags: Uncategorized
1843. We’ve had access to this book for 166 years. And not just the book. Since 1901 there have been 23 adaptations of the book for film, 21 for the stage, and countless retellings, reimaginings and revisits to the source material in print, on radio and on television. 166 years, we’ve all seen it or [...]
I Am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been. But….
Posted: February 26, 2009 in Culture, PoliticsTags: Uncategorized
I came face to face with the horrendous truth of our existence today. And it was communicated to me in a single phrase that captured everything that is wrong with our society in just four words. (No, it wasn’t, “In God we Trust,” though that’s a close second.) “Advances in mattress technology.” Over the course [...]
