Paulitical Satire: Holiday Movie Monday
So, the last weekend of summer is upon us loyal readers! I hope that you are currently enjoying the last day of the last long weekend, of this wonderful summer that was. It’s not everyday the Movie...
View ArticlePaulitical Satire: Back to School Tips – Movie Monday
So, while all the little little kiddies went back to school last week, the bigger kiddies are heading back to classes today in most cases. Given that, I thought I would dispense some “I wish I knew...
View ArticlePaulitical Satire: Your iPhone is Making You an Idiot!
So, last week was iPhone launch week, and as per usual a newer, sexier device is now out there for everyone to drool over. Have you seen it…it’s pretty sexy. Despite the general horniness that people...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: La francophonie affaiblie au fédéral
MISE A JOUR: Le HuffingtonPost Québec publiera ce texte dans les jours qui viennent. En ce Jour de la Francophonie en Ontario, l’heure et au bilan du fait français dans la province la plus peuplée et...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Stephen Harper trumpeted his lust for Brit...
At the heart of our relationship is the golden circle of the Crown which links us all together with the majestic past that takes us back to the Tudors, the Plantagenets, the Magna Carta, habeas corpus,...
View ArticlePaulitical Satire: Justin Trudeau Excites People – And That’s a Good Thing!
So, I’ve been following the recent chatter about Justin Trudeau (or JT as some people have come to call him, both ironically and not) with interest and a bit of a laugh. I thought that my writing...
View ArticleLaw is Cool: Law Student Booted Off the Bachelor
Gabrielle Dipersico is a 1L who just got booted off the television sitcom, The Bachelor. Her lesson from the ordeal? Maybe next time I won’t be as direct with people, I guess. Let’s see how that works...
View Articlemark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Teaser from The...
The Fridgularity is a satire of Internet culture, so that means it’s rife with pop-culture references, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas is one of them. I can’t tell you any more, as that would be a...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Top Twenty Things Harper Can Do with Money...
Looks like Christmas came early : the news leaked that the much-criticized F-35 military jet purchase, first estimated at $16Billion or $25Billion or $30B or $40B, has been cancelled. Did Harper...
View ArticleThe Equivocator: Uranowski’s First Law of Involuntary Suspension of Disbelief
Uranowski’s First Law of Involuntary Suspension of Disbelief Even if you didn’t know that the 1999 masterpiece “Deep Blue Sea” was about super-intelligent sharks before hand, Saffron Burrows’s...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Idle No More: An audio essay by the CBC Radio’s...
Jian Ghomeshi, the host of “Q”, a national daily cultural affairs talk program on the CBC’s Radio One, weighs in on the Idle No More grassroots movement for First Nations rights in Canada. Ghomeshi...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: CBS bans breasts, buttocks, genitals, this Pink...
By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 9, 2013: Nearly ten years after Janet Jackson’s famous wardrobe malfunction, the CBS is on high alert concerning nudity. A “Wardrobe Advisory” email...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Lisa Lampanelli Goes “My Nigga” and “Beyotch” About...
This is how Lisa Lampanelli, the self-anointed Queen of Mean, described the following photo of herself with Lena Dunham, the creator of GIRLS: “Me with my nigga @LenaDunham of @HBOGirls – I love this...
View ArticleLaw is Cool: Chess Master, You May Approach the Bench
Ever want to take on an opponent in court from the comfort of your living room? This legal themed chess set might provide an outlet. “Approach the Bench” was designed by a lawyer’s son as a gift to his...
View ArticleThe Equivocator: Stop reading this and go watch Borgen.
Seriously. Click here to purchase the first 2 seasons. Need more convincing? Here is why I enjoy”Borgen” so thoroughly: I am a political nerd. Like most political nerds I am able to quote (and...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: NOT Offended By Brad Paisley and LL Cool J’s...
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Last week “Accidental Racist”, the new duet by country singer Brad Paisley and rapper LL Cool J made a lot of people uncomfortable. Angry even. It caused...
View ArticleWritings of J. Todd Ring: The new epidemic: Death cults and the culture of...
An article in The Atlantic speaks to the growing death-fetish that is gripping more and more youth. It is a bad omen for the state of modern industrial civilization as a whole, I would contend, and it...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Ottawa’s RedBlacks, Redskins and Blackface
The National Capital Region will soon welcome a new CFL football club. This will be the third time the team rises from its ashes: the Ottawa Rough Riders went bankrupt in 1996, and again in 2006 under...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Les Plumes des Peau-Rouges de Nepean...
La région de l’Outaouais va bientôt accueillir un nouveau club de football. Ce sera la 3e fois que l’équipe renait de ces cendres : les Ottawa Rough Riders ont fait faillite en 1996, et encore en 2006,...
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