Politics

Sometimes something very simple really makes you think. ‘Nuff said.

Yesterday I was impressed that the PM was going to send his plane to help evacuate people from Lebanon. Today on the news I hear that some of the first evacuees were complaining about the conditions. These were folks stuffed onto a cruise ship to get them to Cyprus, and I don’t imagine the trip

Every once and a while I have to say that politicians impress me. Mostly it’s with dumb decisions…. this time though, it’s the opposite. Seems that our PM Stephen Harper is aiding evacuation from Lebanon for Canadians in his plane. Now if I was Prime Minister I’d probably be taking the private jet down to

Just a quick thought… so after the floods they’ve detected that the water is toxic. At the same time, they’re pumping water out of the city. Great pics of these massive pipes dumping water into the bay on the news. At least they acknowledge that it’s going to kill everything in the water, which goes

Darren says he’s voting green, and gives his reasons for his decision. Personally, I’m still undecided. Lately I’ve been thinking more about Canadian politics, especially after the Leaders Debate a week ago. To help make my decision I decided not to go with the candidate-o-matic and ask my local candidates directly.

First of all you can find far more real information about the Leaders Debate here. Lately, funnily enough thanks to things in the states, I’ve become a bit more interested in politics. There’s an election coming up and I have no idea who to vote for (regardless of what the Candidate-o-matic that Darren found tells

Wim pointed to a fantastic talk on free culture by Lessig. Great stuff, long, but worth it. He talks about free software, copyright, microsoft, and the evils therein.

Dear “President” Bush; You are an asshole. Love, Alan

Over at Teal Sunglasses there is a nice commentary on America — love it or, um… which puts into words a lot of things that I’ve thought every time I see a political flame war break out. Erik has some good thoughts as well. All I can say is that I’m very happy the folks