Conservative boycott shuts down Afghan detainee hearing - The Globe and Mail

This is really pissing me off.

“It's not the time to be having meetings that are implying, intentioned or not, that Canadians are somehow guilty of war crimes,” Laurie Hawn, the parliamentary secretary for the Defence Minister, said on CTV's Power Play after the aborted ( Read more... )

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I am really upset about this. Local SF author Peter Watts was beaten, pepper sprayed and arrested by US border guards while trying to cross back into Canada. For, basically, asking why his car was being searched ( Read more... )

Dear subconscious,

Are... are you trying to write a book? You know we haven't got the time and energy for that sort of thing. Even if you keep supplying characters, and now a bloody theme.

Honestly.

Some people's brains.

(mm, brains.)

Quick, somebody talk me out of buying a couple pairs of these!

I don't know if this is another "feature" of my weird metabolism, or if this happens to everyone else. Whenever I go for an extended stretch of being exhausted and stressed (or sick), I get a day of overcompensation when that ends. When my body is still amped up on crisis chemicals to combat an exhaustion state that no longer exists ( Read more... )