I'm still choking on a full article about the Olympics, which I'll probably never finish, but until then it feels like I should at least post some required viewing. Anyone who has spent any time out with me drinking, during or since the opening ceremonies of the Olympics knows that I have less than total respect for the games, or the West's ( Read more... )

Posted from Jimmy's World.

Grey haired and disheveled and wild he tells me how he can sell me pot on the right day if I "look him up".
Ryan (presumed spelling) is jokingly "self employed" on or about the corner of Duluth and St. Laurent; and he works his corner for ten dollars to get access to the Salvation Army shelter and a hot meal. He asks if ( Read more... )

On JW

Just a short update, a very long time in coming. The Animal Housing project is not dead in the slightest. I’ve been trying to contact the author of the Gazette story to organize some kind of unified movement towards replacing the shelter which was destroyed, but my correspondence has fallen into some kind of black hole. The nature of that ( Read more... )

We're less than 20 hours in and already we've hit one thousand in commitments thanks to Joe, Margaret, Andrew, Robert, Valentine and others. Also, we already have one large corporate sponsor which has offered up free advertising once our ducks are in a row.
I'll post updates as things progress. Let's keep this ball rolling. Thanks again to ( Read more... )

From JW

Humans like to kill humans, steal from each-other, rape, lie and pillage, but cats and dogs are just cats and dogs. They just love us.


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The Fifth Estate brings us The Lies that Led to War, a CBC documentary which covers the lead up, and selling of the war. Originally aired March 7th 2007, this film pulls no punches while they look more deeply into the horrific acts of Saddam at Halabja in 1988, the source of Bush's mantra: he gassed his own people. Thankfully they add ( Read more... )

From Jimmy’s World

June 5th 1989. In the mist of a gloomy morning true heroism was captured on film and has become an indelible symbol of courage and the purity of the human spirit that we should never allow ourselves to forget.


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Original from JW Religion

All I can say is that I hope you were right and there's a Hell, Jerry.

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Also, make sure to catch BoingBoing's listing of Famous Falwell quotes.

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Original on JW Religion

Entirely a rehash of the older arguments made by Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort on their site, The Way of the Master, the debate is still interesting to watch. I think the initial rebuttal by the The Rational response Squad was powerful, but was followed up by a somewhat rambling response by the tremendously attractive, but ( Read more... )

Original on JW Religion

The Onion, of all sources, brought to my attention the recently rectified exclusion of Wicca from the ‘official’ religious symbols allowed on the tombstones of veterans. The military is always slow to move on things like this, and they have since corrected their mistake, after extensive legislation of course; but what ( Read more... )