Two things about the coming Star Trek movie

— 12.14.2015 03:52 PM

One, it’s going to be way better than Star Wars.

Two, they should have used the Cancer Bats’ cover of the Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage.’ It’s better than the original. Right here:

Come to the Hard Luck next Friday to see the Cancer Bats! Me and Daughter 2 and Bjorn will be there, too.


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Sandy Hook was three years ago today

— 12.14.2015 08:11 AM

And what has changed in the US in that time?

Nothing.

In fact, it is probably easier to get firearms in the United States now than it was three years ago.

After Sandy Hook, I gave up hope that Americans will ever change. If the deaths of twenty small children cannot do that, nothing will.

Here are those twenty children, and the six adults who died with them.


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Election 2015: the bettors are back

— 12.13.2015 11:55 AM

Way back in March or so, four of us – former Liberal leader senior staffers all – gathered to bet on the outcome of the election. I won’t reveal the identities of the other three, but my prediction is seen below. 

Last night, we gathered again chez nous.  We had fun debating it all. I had predicted a Liberal win, bien sur, but I sure overestimated CPC support in Ontario. Otherwise, not too bad. 

Been quite a year, politically. What’s your bet for 2016?

  


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Dubya returns

— 12.13.2015 11:09 AM

It’s kind of scary when W. and Palin actually turn out to be smarter than any of the current GOP field, ain’t it?


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This is a f**king disgrace

— 12.11.2015 12:53 PM

I am shocked.

“The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has struck down an anti-cyberbullying law passed in response to the death of Rehtaeh Parsons, calling the legislation a “colossal failure” and saying it infringes on charter rights.

The Cyber-Safety Act was the first law passed in Canada aimed at protecting victims of online harassment. The Nova Scotia government introduced it two years ago under intense public pressure after Parsons, a 17-year-old girl, was bullied, attempted suicide and subsequently died.

Parsons’s family alleged she was sexually assaulted in November 2011, when she was 15, and bullied for months after a digital photo of the incident was passed around her school. She was taken off life-support after attempting suicide in 2013.”


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Then again, he probably wouldn’t even notice the difference. Which is kind of the point.

— 12.11.2015 07:40 AM

UPDATE: Smart reader Jonathan Scott adds it’d be “Captained by Rosie O’Donnell.” Also-smart regular Howard Margolian informs us: “In 1895, NY City Police Commish Teddy Roosevelt assigned an all-Jewish detail to protect a visiting anti-Semitic preacher.”


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