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I decided to mix up festivities this year by apparently toasting in the new year with a large glass of influenza virus. In retrospect, I think I can see why “champagne” is probably the more traditional medium, as “general discomfort” really doesn’t do justice to the past few days. I have trouble reading when I’m […]

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Given the large effect US intellectual property policy has on the world at large, it’s always good to keep an eye on there. The Obama administration has announced Xavier Becerra as it’s new Trade Representative. Laura Quilter over at derivative work has an excellent summary, as well as links to profiles and lobbyist funding sources […]

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I don’t have a strong position on the current Canadian political fracas, as I don’t have a partisan banner at which to rally. At the moment, I’m equally enthused with all of the major parties… and that’s not a good thing. I will, however, cross-post an edited and updated version of what I wrote in […]

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This website makes me feel much better about the current market woes hammering my pitiful RRSP. (Via the bird-shirted one himself) Continuing in a similar vein, on a scale from one to awesome, how much fun is it to read really nutty right wing US political websites these days? (Let alone the mere thought that […]

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So 38 days later a record low number of Canadians have gathered to speak as one, in one voice, unified in a collective political belief. I have no idea what that belief is… perhaps that we don’t really like any of these guys so we’re pretty much okay with things the way they were… more […]

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While it was quite refreshing to see culture come up in the leaders debate there’s still an unsettling trend of framing the various issues in the context of “is cultural product important”? These are usually identifiable by such thrilling arguments such as: I don’t think taxpayer money should have been spent on (Artistic Thing Goes […]

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Overcompensating is one of those sites I could pretty much link daily. Jeffrey Rowland is not only one of my favourite webcartoonists – he is also too mean to die. However today’s instalment pretty much summarizes the entirety of the US political arena. It is like a fractal – every single element of it is […]

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I promise not to make too much of a “thing” of US politics – others do it better and we’ve got enough

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