An article claiming to explain why Liberals and Conservatives don't get along flashed across my friends page today.

It basically breaks morality down in to five precepts:

• Harm/care. It is wrong to hurt people; it is good to relieve suffering.

• Fairness/reciprocity. Justice and fairness are good; people have certain rights that need to be upheld ( Read more... )

Courtesy of the devious mind of astatine210....

Celebrate The inauguration of the 44th president of the United States with.... Motorhead?

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via earis, I bring you Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys's heartwarming little ditty, There's No One as Irish as Barack OBama!

:D

Two criteria have to be reconciled...

I am pretty sure that I don't actually need to encourage any of my American friends to get out and vote today - I know many of you already have, and some others are going to great pains to ensure that they can participate i your democracy, but I thought I'd make an encouraging post nonetheless ( Read more... )

From a silly radio drama put on by The House (CBC radio political commentary program ( Read more... )

I kind of love Keith Olbermann

( President of A&M (to be?) nominated as Secretary of Defense )

A reminder to my American friends that they should vote today!

Extra props to those who are planning to volunteer!

The rest of Canada knows and cares who Jacques Cartier is, I'm sure! As interesting as I find this news, I found about it through a historical archaeology listserv. The guy who posted it gave two links. One was to the subscribers only Montreal gazette, and the other was to the French CBC siteThe gist of things is that while looking for evidence ( Read more... )