Archive for May, 2010


No Pants Friday Roundup

It’s a long weekend here in Canadastan, and the pickings in the news are fairly slim. Here’s what I’ve got for you: The Montreal Canadiens finally won a game in their playoff series against the Flyers. Woot! Skippy says Everybody Hates Iggy, which is fact. I mean, even Warren Kinsella jumped that sinking ship, claiming [...]

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Offensive Art

No, not images of Mohammad, or the Virgin Mary made from shit. Finally the art world has found something they can honestly say is offensive: Fat people. The four removed images include a picture of an obese, naked man sitting at a computer, another obese, naked man whose skin overhangs the chair he is sitting [...]

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This made my week

Saudi woman beats up virtue police. Heh. When a Saudi religious policeman questioned a young couple walking together in an amusement park he got a painful surprise – when the woman suddenly attacked him. The officer, from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, asked the pair to confirm their identities [...]

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RightGirl receives a gift!

Over the weekend I was given a copy of Shootin’ the Sh*t with Kevin Smith: The Best of the SModcast, with the inscription “Where’s my shirt??” If you’re a fan of SModcast, you’ll know that joke. I was lying in bed last night, trying not to laugh too loud while I read it. Love it!

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Shut yer labia!

Love this article by Libby Purves in the Times of London. Besides, the assumption that Parliament or Cabinet should fully “reflect the diversity of the electorate” is ridiculous. You work with what’s there: and besides, there are plenty of prominent women who absolutely do not speak for me, and there are Muslims, ethnic minority members, [...]

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