The world’s in Copenhagen, Denmark right now to talk about combating climate change – and the Danish hosts are hopeful for an agreement that will allow 190 world nations to join together like Power Rangers to fight the worst imaginable threat to our species.
“The biggest climate talks in history opened on Monday with a stark [...]
Watch it live streaming right now or don’t. Equal marriage has been a hot topic of late, obviously. You’d have to be living under a rock to have avoided hearing about it. The United States is, unfortunately, a model for civil liberties worldwide, and I think it’s sick and sad that equal marriage is still [...]
a game in which you start with one word, and then add to it using common phrases. for example, “unicorn” and then “unicorn on the cob” – adding “corn on the cob” to “unicorn”. you can use the last word of the preceding phrase, or the last sound. you must repeat the entire string and [...]
Two items sent in by an anonymous alert reader have caught my interest this morning. First is the profile of a queer gaming festival in (the queer/vegan promised land of) Portland, Oregon, this coming weekend. The event will be a safe and fun space to introduce people to pen-and-paper roleplaying (think Dungeons and Dragons). Called [...]
I’ve been on this huge alt-country kick lately – I’ve really been into twangy guitar and banjo and that lilting Texalberta accent to music. I posted a call for good twangy music on my Facebook wall, and got more than 30 recommendations, but my favourite is someone I’ve been listening to for a while – [...]
I remember seeing an interview with Vandana Shiva – an Indian physicist/feminist/environmental activist – talking about the problems of massive Multinational Coca-Cola drying up a river in India for their bottling plant, depriving the area’s population of the water supply vital to their lives. According to the India Resource Centre, as quoted in this article, [...]
Uganda is throwing homosexuals and transgendered persons in jail for homosexual activity. The legislature is causing an uproar globally, but Uganda doesn’t seem to mind. Cases of “aggravated homosexuality”, including repeated homosexual acts, or sex acts with a person who’s under 18, HIV-positive, or, get this, disabled, are punishable by the death sentence. The fucking [...]
Halloween was alright. Probably one of the best I’ve had in recent years – both Friday and Saturday I picked one event and stuck to it, more or less, which reduced the stress I usually have by trying to pack as much fun into a night as possible. I inevitably end up disappointed, that way.
Friday [...]
Good news. I managed to get most of my old recipes back – after I switched webhosts and lost all of my WordPress archives, I thought these were gone forever. But, hurrah! They are not! Malloreigh’s vegan on-the-fly recipe listing is back from the dead. (How seasonally appropriate.)
BC’s Provincial Government is trying to pass Bill 13, which will allow officials in Olympic cities (Vancouver, Richmond and Whistler) the right to barge into people’s private homes to remove or cover up anti-Olympic signage. We are already not allowed to protest; our free speech is being zoned in the city. Any companies that do [...]
